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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law passed by the 47th United States Congress and signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur on January 16, 1883. The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage.
The Civil Service Reform Act (called "the Pendleton Act") is an 1883 federal law that created the United States Civil Service Commission. [13] It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called " spoils system ". [ 13 ]
President Garfield's successor, President Chester A. Arthur, took up the cause of Civil Service reform and was able to lobby Congress to pass the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in 1883. The Pendleton law was passed in part following a public outcry over the assassination of President Garfield.
The NARFE National office is located in Alexandria, Virginia.NARFE is governed by the 12-member National Executive Board (NEB) which includes the National President, National Secretary-Treasurer, and ten regional vice presidents [6] (RVPs) who communicate their regions' concerns to the NEB and NEB decisions back to their state federations.
Pendleton's involvement in the bill cost him reelection in 1884, due to a lack of support from party operatives who had opposed the reforms. [4] After Pendleton's death, the house went through a number of owners and uses, including at one time as a nine-unit tenement house. [4] It was eventually given an exterior restoration in the late 20th ...
Dorman B. Eaton. Dorman Bridgman Eaton (June 27, 1823 – December 23, 1899) was an American lawyer instrumental in American federal Civil Service reform.. An unsympathetic cartoon of Eaton from The Daily Graphic, June 14, 1886 shows him defending a garden of "Civil Service Humbug"
Even after Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act into law, proponents of the act doubted Arthur's commitment to reform. The act initially applied only to ten percent of federal jobs and, without proper implementation by the president, would not have affected the remaining civil service positions. [38]
The term was used particularly in politics of the United States, where the federal government operated on a spoils system until the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883 due to a civil service reform movement. Thereafter the spoils system was largely replaced by nonpartisan merit at the federal level of the United States.