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mugwumps (mŭg`wŭmps'), slang term in U.S. political history for the Republicans who in 1884 deserted their party nominee, James G. Blaine Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830–93, American politician, b. West Brownsville, Pa. Early Career

Blaine taught school and studied law before moving (1854) to Maine, where he became an influential newspaper editor.
..... Click the link for more information. , to vote for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland Cleveland, Grover (Stephen Grover Cleveland), 1837–1908, 22d (1885–89) and 24th (1893–97) President of the United States, b. Caldwell, N.J.; son of a Presbyterian clergyman.
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Bibliography

See L. W. Peterson, The Day of the Mugwump (1961).

Mugwumps

Republican party members who voted independently. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 337]

See : Independence

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