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TAmerica During Reconstruction ... Public reaction to the assassination of President Garfield forced Congress to pass the Civil Service Reform Act. The law established a three-person, bi-partisan panel to develop exams to hire federal employees based on merit.
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Approved on January 16, 1883, the Pendleton Act established a merit-based system of selecting government officials and supervising their work.
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Following the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in January of 1883. The act was steered through Congress by long-time reformer Senator George Hunt Pendleton of Ohio.
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An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States. ... To aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect, and when said rules shall have been promulgated it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States in the departments and offices to which...
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The Pendleton Act classified certain jobs, removed them from the patronage ranks, and set up a Civil Service Commission to administer a system based on merit rather than political connections. ... Paul P. Van Riper, History of the United States Civil Service (1958). THE PENDLETON ACT (1883); An act to regulate and...
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The People's Vote: 100 Documents that Shaped America ... Following the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in January of 1883. The act was steered through Congress by long-time reformer Senator George Hunt Pendleton of Ohio.
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The Pendleton Act regulated and improved the Civil Service in the United States
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