... York, ignoring Conkling, who felt that he deserved to offer those jobs to his own supporters. Conkling and New York's other senator, Thomas Platt, resigned from the Senate to protest Garfield's appointments.Vice President Arthur supported the New York senators and accompanied them to Albany, New York, where they asked the state legislature to give them a vote of confidence by reappointing ... .An example of such corruption had come to light before Arthur became president. Post office officials had conspired with stagecoach operators to steal millions of dollars from the U.S. government, a...

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