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The Mugwumps was an America rock band formed in New York City in 1964. Signed to Warner Bros., the group released one single before disbanding in late 1964.
The Mugwumps fue una banda de rock norteamericana fundada en los años 60 que contó entre sus miembros con artistas que más tarde formaron parte de bandas como The Mamas & the Papas y The Lovin' Spoonful.
25 de nov. de 2017 · 261. 21K views 6 years ago. Members Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty would become one-half of the Mamas & the Papas (who told the story of The Mugwumps in their hit song "Creeque Alley"),...
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Political patronage, also known as the spoils system, was the issue that angered many reform-minded Republicans, leading them to reject Blaine's candidacy. In the spoils system, the winning candidate would dole out government positions to those who had supported his political party prior to the election. Although the Pendleton Act of 1883 establish...
In Massachusetts, Mugwumps were led by Richard Henry Dana III, (1851–1931), the editor of the Civil Service Record. They took credit for passing the state's 1884 civil service law, which was a stronger version of the federal Pendleton Act of 1883. Both laws were enacted to limit the effect of political patronage, thus disrupting the spoils system. ...
Several historians of the 1950s through 1970s portrayed the Mugwumps as members of an insecure elite, one that felt threatened by changes in American society. These historians often focused on the social background and status of their subjects and the narratives they have written share a common outlook. Mugwumps tended to come from old Protestant f...
Dictionaries report that "mugguomp" is an Algonquian word meaning "person of importance" or "war leader". The Indianapolis Sentinel pinned the moniker on the Independents in 1872, but it was Charles Anderson Dana, the colorful newspaperman and editor of the now-defunct New York Sun, who revived it in March 1884, after which it achieved far wider cu...
Charles Francis Adams Jr., president of the Union Pacific Railroad and the American Historical AssociationBibliography
1. Blodgett, Geoffrey T. (1966). The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts Democrats in the Cleveland Era. Harvard University Press. online 2. Blodgett, Geoffrey T. "The Mind of the Boston Mugwump," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 48, No. 4. (Mar. 1962), pp. 614–634. JSTOR. 3. Butler, Leslie. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform(2009), a major recent study 4. Cunningham, Raymond. "'Scientia Pro Patria': Herbert Baxter Adams and Mugwump Academic...
"Mugwump" . Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). 1911."Mugwump" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.The Mugwumps were a 1960’s folk rock band, based in New York City, that featured later members of the Mamas & the Papas and the Lovin' Spoonful.
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