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Conk⋅ling

[kong-kling]
–noun
Roscoe, 1829–88, U.S. lawyer and politician: senator 1867–81.
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Conk·ling   (kŏngk'lĭng)   
American politician who resigned from the U.S. Senate (1881) as a protest against President James A. Garfield's interference in New York patronage politics.
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