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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 ]
The Pendleton law was passed in part following a public outcry over the assassination of President Garfield. The Pendleton Act renewed funding for the Civil Service Commission and established a three-man commission to run Civil Service whose commissioners were chosen by President Arthur.
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 ...
It's a comment from president-elect Donald Trump that caught many people off guard. "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," he said.
A post shared on Facebook claims the U.S. military purportedly shot down drones over Camp Pendleton. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a Dec. 22 article published on the ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct his Justice Department to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty to protect Americans from "violent rapists, murderers, and monsters ...