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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
James G. Blaine
Born: January 31, 1830
Died: January 27, 1893 (aged 62)
Bio: James Gillespie Blaine was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S.
Known for:
- Twenty years of Congress (1884)
- James A. Garfield
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