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But Roscoe Conkling turned them both down — once for ... Conkling struck back hard. During a speech to the New York Republican convention in 1877, he denounced his foes as the “man-milliners ...

Both, for instance, are entitled to the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion ... representing Southern Pacific was a man named Roscoe Conkling. A leader of the Republican Party for ...

Roscoe Platt Conkling—for three weeks every scandal-nosing news cub has leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster ...

Roscoe Conkling NPR's Melissa Block has a remembrance of Roscoe Conkling, a political powerhouse of the late 19th century, who has faded into obscurity. He died 113 years ago today.

It doesn’t take long for Roscoe Conkling – Utica’s newly sworn-in U.S. senator – to demonstrate that he is not a follower, but a leader. He makes his first speech in the senate and ...