James G. Blaine

James G. Blaine was president of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was the first Republican president since Abraham Lincoln and he was president during the Second Mexican War. One of the main reasons he was elected was due to the fact that his predecessor, Samuel Tildon changed the flag so the states of the Confederacy were taken off. He took an anti-Confederate stance and he refused to let the Confederacy buy the provinces of Chihuahua and Sonora without a fight. His country was soundly defeated in the Second Mexican War and after the war the Republican Party split into three factions. James Blaine was soundly defeated in 1885.