Roscoe Conkling

1800sAmericans
Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • Born in Albany, NY

  • 6’ 3”

  • Tammany Hall boss

  • Super-corrupt; once had Chester Arthur drag a James Garfield appointee out of bed to make him quit his post

  • Despite coming off like an absolute garbage human being in everything I’d first read about him — he was committed to abolishing slavery and Reconstruction

  • Supported Blanche K. Bruce, a formerly enslaved man who took Jefferson Davis’ seat (more on this at some point)

  • It’s clear I need to learn more about him before fully-forming an opinion

Roscoe Conkling had Chester Arthur drag a Garfield appointee out of bed to make him quit
Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

I’ve read at least one book about every U.S. president, never tire of shoehorning presidential trivia into conversations, and am basically an expert at hiding mistakes in my sketchbooks.

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