James Blaine


 * Lost to Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election
 * Attacked him with the slogan, "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?"
 * "Continental liar from the state of Maine"
 * Robert Ingersoll dubbed him the "Plumed Knight" at the 1876 Republican Convention
 * One of his presidential bids was derailed by the Mulligan Letters
 * Allegations that the Union Pacific Railroad paid for worthless bonds
 * Attempted to organize a Pan-American Conference
 * Theodore Frelinghuysen undud much of his work as Secretary of State
 * New York World ran a headline about "Belshazzar's Feast" describing his dinner at Delmonico's with men like Jay Gould