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1883 – Civil Rights Cases 109 US 3 1883 legalizes doctrine of segregation; 1883 – Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act; 1883 – Brooklyn Bridge opens; 1883 - Joseph Pulitzer buys the New York World; 1884 – U.S. presidential election, 1884: Grover Cleveland elected president and Thomas A. Hendricks elected vice president; 1884 ...
2 September – Henry B. Anthony, U.S. senator from Rhode Island from 1859 to 1884 (born 1815) 26 September – John W. Garrett, banker, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and philanthropist (born 1820) 6 November – William Wells Brown, African American writer (born 1814) 9 December – Mary Bell Smith, educator, social reformer ...
For this reason, 1884 is a significant election in U.S. political history, marking an interruption in the era when Republicans largely controlled the presidency between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. Cleveland won the presidential nomination on the second ballot of the 1884 Democratic National Convention.
1884 in the United States by state or territory (49 C) 1884 disestablishments in the United States (17 C, 8 P) 1884 establishments in the United States (51 C, 18 P)
The commission issued its first rules in May 1883; by 1884, half of all postal officials and three-quarters of the Customs Service jobs were to be awarded by merit. [28] During his first term, President Grover Cleveland expanded the number of federal positions subject to the merit system from 16,000 to 27,000.
Three days later, twenty-two union men attempted to speak out at a local crossroads, but each was arrested; arrests and beatings of strikebreakers became common throughout the following months, and on 30 October vigilantes forced IWW speakers to run the gauntlet, subjecting them to whipping, tripping kicking, and impalement against a spiked ...
1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1884th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 884th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of ...
While most elections from 1876 through 1892 were extremely close, the opposition Democrats won only the 1884 and 1892 presidential elections (the Democrats also won the popular vote in the 1876 and 1888 presidential elections, but lost the electoral college vote), though from 1875 to 1895 the party usually controlled the United States House of ...