Milwaukee: A City Built on Water | Program |
[Original Airdate: April 22, 2015]
Historian John Gurda explores how the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan spurred Milwaukee's growth. The settlers used rivers and Lake Michigan to transport grain, lumber, leather and beer, but water was just as important for play as it was for work. Gurda explains how the Milwaukee River became a destination for fun. Learn how the lower Milwaukee River was eventually reduced to an open sewer by 1900, with Lake Michigan suffering similar indignities. Only in recent decades have the currents turned for the better. From the Milwaukee River Greenway to the reborn Menomonee Valley to the cultural theme park on our downtown lakefront, the patterns of the past are being reversed, providing cause for celebration as well as concern.
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The Arts Page | Program | #301 -- Local Look at Arts #5
[Original Airdate: October 2, 2014]
Retired advertising photographer Tom Ferderbar of Delafield, WI (owner of Ferderbar Studios) is profiled. He's spent the last 40 years documenting the American West, especially Route 66, Yosemite, and the Tetons. Milwaukee-based stained glass artist Melissa Janda combines painting with her traditional stained glass art. Racine artist Bill Reid creates whimsical, moveable metal sculptures and pedal vehicles. A look is taken at the first retrospective of art from the Arts/Industry program offered at KOHLER Co. that showcases 40 years of artists working with industrial specialists. Sandy Maxx hosts.
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Milwaukee PBS is an award-winning multimedia producer and broadcaster of exceptional and meaningful local and national content. Licensed to Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee PBS is one of the highest-rated PBS stations in the country. Our unique, independent position in the community makes us the ideal source of community engagement as a storyteller, conversation facilitator and advocate. No matter where you come from or where you make your home, we encourage you to bring your world and Milwaukee into focus as a member of the Milwaukee PBS community.
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A Breakthrough Treatment to Remove Eye Floaters
Eye floaters are clumps that form in the back of the eye (vitreous) that can cause people to see “spots” in their vision. They may look like black or gray specks, strings, cobwebs, or large blurs that drift about when you move your eyes. They are disruptive, annoying, and can really affect your life. Luckily the Eye Centers of Racine & Kenosha are pioneers in non-invasive, painless floater removal. Dr. Inder Paul Singh and Dr. R Krishna Sanka join us to discuss this exciting, breakthrough technology.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located on the Grand River about 25 miles east of Lake Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 188,040. In 2010, the Grand Rapids metropolitan area had a population of 1,005,648, and the combined statistical area of Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland had a population of 1,321,557. Grand Rapids is the county seat of Kent County, Michigan, second largest city in Michigan (after Detroit), and the largest city in West Michigan. A historic furniture-manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is still home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies, and is nicknamed Furniture City. Its more common modern nickname of River City refers to the landmark river for which it was named. The city and surrounding communities are economically diverse, and contribute heavily to the health care, information technology, automotive, aviation, and consumer goods manufacturing industries, among others.
Grand Rapids was the home of The First Family of U.S, Boxing: Floyd Sr., Jr., Jeff, and Roger Mayweather, World Championship Boxer James Toney, singer and song writer Anthony Kiedis, the filmmakers Paul Schrader and Leonard Schrader, the singer Al Green and U.S. President Gerald Ford, who—along with his wife Betty—is buried on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids.
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Garbage Disposals: 5 Fast Facts
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Fact #1. The very first garbage disposal was invented by an architect from Racine, Wisconsin in 1927. He did it to make cleaning up the kitchen easier for his wife. The patent for the device was granted in 1935. Shortly thereafter, the inventor founded the InSinkErator company in 1940 to manufacture and sell his design. This brand name is still well-known today.
Fact #2. Many cities in the United States during the 1940s had regulations against food waste in the sewage system. New York City was especially strong in these laws. The inventor's company put a significant amount of effort to have these regulations rescinded. Because of that, the popularity of these devices has stayed strong in the United States. In the early 2010s, nearly half of all homes had one.
Fact #3. They are electrically-powered devices typically installed under a kitchen sink. They tend to be located between the drain and sink trap. The design allows them to chew up food scraps when combined with a heavy flow of cold water. In most circumstances, cold water is best to use when running one. It helps to congeal and solidify certain foods that would otherwise be slippery or sticky at higher temperatures.
Fact #4. They have several parts working together to grind up foods. This includes an upper hopper, shredder ring, a flywheel, a lower hopper, electric motor, and a waste line connector. When you start the disposal, its motor activates in order to power and spin the flywheel at nearly 2000 RPM. When the food enters the drain, it falls through the disposal's upper hopper chamber and onto the spinning flywheel. The impellers fling it against the shredder ring, which chops it up.
Fact #5. The best models have stainless steel components and powerful motors. Power is one of the most important considerations. It ensures the food is properly chopped up, which prevents drain clogs. Having the power to grind the food waste into pieces as small as possible is essential.
Miller Park (Milwaukee)
Miller Park is a ballpark located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is home to the Milwaukee Brewers and was completed in 2001 as a replacement for Milwaukee County Stadium. The park is located just southwest of the intersection of Interstate 94 and Miller Park Way. The title sponsor is the Miller Brewing Company. Miller's contract with the stadium was for $40 million, and runs until 2020.
Miller Park features North America's only fan-shaped convertible roof, which can open and close in less than 10 minutes. Large panes of glass allow natural grass to grow, augmented with heat lamp structures wheeled out across the field during the off-season.
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Snap-on - MADE IN CHINA?
We constantly get comments, messages, and emails from people telling us that Snap-on is 100% Made in USA. Unfortunately that is NOT true --- and today we prove that.
Like many brands, Snap-on has chosen to license their name/logo to other companies (for a fee) in order for those companies to produce tools/merchandise with the Snap-on logo. Many people believe that that are buying 100% Snap-on tools --- when in reality, they are buying much cheaper tools with merely a Snap-on logo on the side.
Along with that, there are even tools that Snap-on sells direct (website & tool trucks) that are NOT made in USA. Check out the video to see some examples & proof for yourself.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:37 1 History
00:01:46 1.1 Native American settlement
00:03:35 1.2 European-American settlement
00:13:12 1.3 Incorporation and growth
00:15:36 1.4 Economic history
00:15:45 1.4.1 Gypsum mining
00:16:51 1.4.2 Furniture City
00:19:19 2 Geography
00:19:29 2.1 Topography
00:21:25 2.2 Climate
00:25:21 3 Cityscape
00:28:40 4 Culture
00:34:07 4.1 Tourism
00:39:34 4.2 Entertainment and performing arts
00:44:00 4.3 Sports
00:46:19 4.4 Media
00:48:26 5 Economy
00:51:53 6 Demographics
00:52:02 6.1 2010 census
00:54:44 6.2 2000 census
00:57:00 6.3 Ethnicity
00:57:58 6.4 Religion
01:02:00 7 Government and politics
01:03:21 7.1 Mayor
01:04:40 7.2 Politics
01:06:03 8 Education
01:09:56 9 Notable people
01:10:06 10 Transportation
01:10:15 10.1 Transportation history
01:10:25 10.1.1 Roadways
01:10:58 10.1.2 Railroad
01:11:55 10.1.3 Air transportation
01:12:23 10.2 Major highways
01:13:53 10.3 Mass transit
01:14:02 10.3.1 Bus
01:15:36 10.3.2 Air
01:16:29 10.3.3 Rail
01:16:55 11 Sister cities
01:17:15 12 See also
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Grand Rapids is the second-largest city in Michigan and the largest city in West Michigan. It is on the Grand River about 30 miles (48 km) east of Lake Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 188,040. In 2010, the Grand Rapids metropolitan area had a population of 1,005,648, and the combined statistical area of Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland had a population of 1,321,557. Grand Rapids is the county seat of Kent County.A historic furniture-manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies, and is nicknamed Furniture City. Other nicknames include River City and more recently, Beer City (the latter given by USA Today and adopted by the city as a brand). The city and surrounding communities are economically diverse, based in the health care, information technology, automotive, aviation, and consumer goods manufacturing industries, among others.
Grand Rapids is the childhood home of U.S. President Gerald Ford, who is buried with his wife Betty on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in the city. The city's main airport and one of its freeways are also named after him.
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Pauline Kael called him “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard said he was “a genius” who “invented 80% of what is used in Hollywood movies today.” With credits that include Scarface, Twentieth Century and Notorious, novelist, reporter, and playwright Ben Hecht also emerged during WWII as an outspoken crusader for the imperiled Jews of Europe and later became a fierce propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine’s Jewish terrorist underground.
Adina Hoffman spoke with Phillip Lopate on February 12, 2019 at the Center for Jewish History about her new biography of this charismatic and contradictory figure, who came to embody much that defined America—especially Jewish America—in his time.
1964 New York World's Fair | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:11 1 Site history
00:04:38 2 Beginnings
00:08:54 3 Architecture
00:11:08 4 International participation
00:16:19 5 Federal and state exhibits
00:16:29 5.1 US Pavilion
00:17:19 5.2 United States Space Park
00:18:29 5.3 New York State Pavilion
00:20:03 5.4 Other state pavilions
00:20:40 5.5 New York City Pavilion
00:21:11 5.6 Bourbon Street Pavilion
00:22:59 6 American industry
00:23:19 6.1 General Motors
00:24:14 6.2 IBM
00:25:07 6.3 Bell System
00:25:34 6.4 Westinghouse
00:26:10 6.5 Sinclair Oil
00:26:38 6.6 Ford
00:27:13 6.7 DuPont
00:27:30 6.8 Parker Pen
00:27:46 6.9 Chunky Candy
00:28:17 7 Films
00:29:48 8 Disney influence
00:32:59 9 Failure of amusements
00:34:54 10 Controversial ending
00:36:28 11 On-site legacy
00:40:08 12 Reuse of pavilions and major exhibits elsewhere
00:48:31 13 Cultural references
00:49:45 14 Gallery
00:49:54 15 See also
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The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. The immense fair covered 646 acres (261 ha) on half the park, with numerous pools or fountains, and an amusement park with rides near the lake. However, the fair did not receive official sanctioning from the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE). Hailing itself as a universal and international exposition, the fair's theme was Peace Through Understanding, dedicated to Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe. American companies dominated the exposition as exhibitors. The theme was symbolized by a 12-story-high, stainless-steel model of the earth called the Unisphere, built on the foundation of the Perisphere from the 1939 NYC fair. The fair ran for two six-month seasons, April 22 – October 18, 1964, and April 21 – October 17, 1965. Admission price for adults (13 and older) was $2 in 1964 (equivalent to $16.16 in 2018) but $2.50 (equivalent to $19.88 in 2018) in 1965, and $1 for children (2–12) both years (equivalent to $8.08 in 2018).The fair is noted as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well represented. More than 51 million people attended the fair, though fewer than the hoped-for 70 million. It remains a touchstone for many American Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and many cultural changes.
In many ways the fair symbolized a grand consumer show covering many products produced in America at the time for transportation, living, and consumer electronic needs in a way that would never be repeated at future world's fairs in North America. Many major American manufacturing companies from pen manufacturers, to chemical companies, to computers, to automobiles had a major presence. This fair gave many attendees their first interaction with computer equipment. Corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays, teletype machines, punch cards, and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in back offices away from the public, decades before the Internet and home computers were at everyone's disposal.
Milwaukee | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:25 1 History
00:02:35 1.1 Name
00:03:17 1.2 Native American Milwaukee
00:05:36 1.3 Milwaukee since European settlement
00:20:43 1.4 Historic neighborhoods
00:24:05 2 Geography
00:25:48 2.1 Cityscape
00:27:56 2.2 Climate
00:31:56 2.3 Water
00:33:14 3 Demographics
00:34:41 3.1 2010 Census
00:37:39 3.2 Ethnic groups
00:41:32 3.3 Religion
00:44:09 4 Economy
00:44:18 4.1 Early economy
00:47:43 4.2 Brewing
00:51:31 4.3 Milwaukee's economy today
00:54:43 5 Culture
00:55:29 5.1 Museums
00:55:38 5.1.1 Art
00:57:09 5.1.2 Science and natural history
01:00:18 5.1.3 Social and cultural history
01:04:02 5.2 Arenas and performing arts
01:04:38 5.3 Public art and monuments
01:04:59 5.4 City of Festivals
01:06:49 5.5 Cuisine
01:07:47 5.6 Music
01:11:47 5.7 Municipal wireless
01:12:39 6 Sports
01:14:22 7 Parks and recreation
01:15:26 7.1 Parks and nature centers
01:16:04 7.2 Milwaukee County public markets
01:17:13 8 Government and politics
01:21:18 8.1 Crime
01:22:25 8.2 Poverty
01:23:00 9 Education
01:23:10 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:24:46 9.2 Higher education
01:24:59 10 Media
01:28:08 11 Infrastructure
01:28:18 11.1 Health care
01:29:53 11.2 Transportation
01:30:03 11.2.1 Airports
01:31:35 11.2.2 Intercity rail and bus
01:33:05 11.2.3 Transit
01:34:35 11.2.4 Highways
01:39:51 11.2.5 Water
01:40:28 11.2.6 Bicycle
01:43:44 11.2.7 Walkability
01:44:32 11.2.8 Modal characteristics
01:45:42 11.3 City development
01:47:46 12 Notable people
01:47:55 13 Sister cities
01:48:12 13.1 Friendship cities
01:48:33 14 See also
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Milwaukee (, locally ) is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The seat of the eponymous county, it is on Lake Michigan's western shore. Ranked by its estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee was the 31st largest city in the United States. The city's estimated population in 2017 was 595,351. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area which had a population of 2,043,904 in the 2014 census estimate. It is the third-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago and Detroit, respectively .Milwaukee is considered a Gamma global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network with a regional GDP of over $105 billion.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic Jesuit missionaries, who were ministering to Native Americans, and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the city of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions, with Poles and other eastern European immigrants arriving in the following decades. Milwaukee is known for its brewing traditions, begun with the German immigrants.
Beginning in the early 21st century, the city has been undergoing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. Major new additions to the city in the past two decades include the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Wisconsin Center, Miller Park, The Hop (streetcar system), an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as major renovations to the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena. The Fiserv Forum opened in late 2018.
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Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945)
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- Socrates
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A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent under the new U.S. patent statute. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years.From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below. Some examples of patented inventions between the years 1890 and 1945 include John Froelich's tractor (1892), Ransom Eli Olds' assembly line (1901), Willis Carrier's air-conditioning (1902), the Wright Brothers' airplane (1903), and Robert H. Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket (1926).
1964 World's Fair | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:11 1 Site history
00:04:38 2 Beginnings
00:08:55 3 Architecture
00:11:08 4 International participation
00:16:20 5 Federal and state exhibits
00:16:30 5.1 US Pavilion
00:17:20 5.2 United States Space Park
00:18:30 5.3 New York State Pavilion
00:20:04 5.4 Other state pavilions
00:20:40 5.5 New York City Pavilion
00:21:12 5.6 Bourbon Street Pavilion
00:23:00 6 American industry
00:23:20 6.1 General Motors
00:24:15 6.2 IBM
00:25:07 6.3 Bell System
00:25:35 6.4 Westinghouse
00:26:11 6.5 Sinclair Oil
00:26:39 6.6 Ford
00:27:13 6.7 DuPont
00:27:31 6.8 Parker Pen
00:27:47 6.9 Chunky Candy
00:28:18 7 Films
00:29:48 8 Disney influence
00:32:59 9 Failure of amusements
00:34:55 10 Controversial ending
00:36:29 11 On-site legacy
00:40:09 12 Reuse of pavilions and major exhibits elsewhere
00:48:33 13 Cultural references
00:49:47 14 Gallery
00:49:56 15 See also
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. The immense fair covered 646 acres (261 ha) on half the park, with numerous pools or fountains, and an amusement park with rides near the lake. However, the fair did not receive official sanctioning from the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE). Hailing itself as a universal and international exposition, the fair's theme was Peace Through Understanding, dedicated to Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe. American companies dominated the exposition as exhibitors. The theme was symbolized by a 12-story-high, stainless-steel model of the earth called the Unisphere, built on the foundation of the Perisphere from the 1939 NYC fair. The fair ran for two six-month seasons, April 22 – October 18, 1964, and April 21 – October 17, 1965. Admission price for adults (13 and older) was $2 in 1964 (equivalent to $16.16 in 2018) but $2.50 (equivalent to $19.88 in 2018) in 1965, and $1 for children (2–12) both years (equivalent to $8.08 in 2018).The fair is noted as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well represented. More than 51 million people attended the fair, though fewer than the hoped-for 70 million. It remains a touchstone for many American Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and many cultural changes.
In many ways the fair symbolized a grand consumer show covering many products produced in America at the time for transportation, living, and consumer electronic needs in a way that would never be repeated at future world's fairs in North America. Many major American manufacturing companies from pen manufacturers, to chemical companies, to computers, to automobiles had a major presence. This fair gave many attendees their first interaction with computer equipment. Corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays, teletype machines, punch cards, and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in back offices away from the public, decades before the Internet and home computers were at everyone's disposal.
1880 Republican National Convention | Wikipedia audio article
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1880 Republican National Convention
00:02:06 1 Background
00:02:59 1.1 Ulysses S. Grant
00:06:08 1.2 James G. Blaine
00:08:49 1.3 John Sherman
00:10:15 1.4 James Garfield
00:13:21 2 Pre-convention politics
00:20:50 3 The convention
00:25:15 3.1 Presenting the nominees
00:29:45 3.2 Balloting
00:40:23 4 Aftermath
00:42:06 5 See also
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- Socrates
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The 1880 Republican National Convention convened from June 2 to June 8, 1880, at the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and nominated Representative James A. Garfield of Ohio and Chester A. Arthur of New York as the official candidates of the Republican Party for President and Vice President, respectively, in the 1880 presidential election.
Of the 14 men in contention for the Republican nomination, the three strongest candidates leading up to the convention were Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine, and John Sherman. Grant had served two terms as President from 1869 to 1877, and was seeking an unprecedented third term in office. He was backed by the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party, which supported political machines and patronage. Blaine was a senator and former representative from Maine who was backed by the Half-Breed faction of the Republican Party. Sherman, the brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, was serving as Secretary of the Treasury under President Rutherford B. Hayes. A former senator from Ohio, he was backed by delegates who did not support the Stalwarts or Half-Breeds.
On the first ballot, Sherman received 93 votes, while Grant and Blaine had 304 and 285, respectively. With 379 votes required to win the nomination, none of the candidates was close to victory, and the balloting continued. After the thirty-fifth ballot, Blaine and Sherman switched their support to a new dark horse candidate, James Garfield. On the next ballot, Garfield won the nomination by receiving 399 votes, 93 higher than Grant's total. Garfield's Ohio delegation chose Chester A. Arthur, a Stalwart, as Garfield's vice-presidential running mate. Arthur won the nomination by capturing 468 votes, and the longest-ever Republican National Convention was subsequently adjourned. The Garfield–Arthur Republican ticket later defeated Democrats Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English in the close 1880 presidential election.
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