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| 1. | James Gil⋅les⋅pie [gi-les-pee] , 1830–93, U.S. statesman. |
| 2. | a town in E Minnesota. 28,558. |
| Blaine (blān) A city of eastern Minnesota, an industrial suburb of St. Paul. Population: 55,100. |
| Blaine, James Gillespie Known as "the Plumed Knight." 1830-1893. American politician. A U.S. representative (1863-1876) and senator (1876-1881) from Maine, he was U.S. secretary of state (1881 and 1889-1892) and lost the 1884 presidential election to Grover Cleveland. |
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