Mark Malvasi
More and more Americans, all of them convinced that their side is losing, try to rig the game in their favor. No longer willing to play fair, they want only to win.
Born on October 4, 1809 and orphaned at the age of twelve, Robert Cumming Schenck overcame his early difficulties to earn a bachelor’s degree at Miami University of Ohio. He subsequently practiced law and participated in the turbulent world of Jacksonian politics. Skeptical of President Jackson, Schenck eventually abandoned the Democratic Party and served as a Whig member of Congress, representing the 3rd Congressional District of Ohio between 1843 and 1851. After a brief diplomatic career as American envoy to Brazil, Schenck returned to the United States, embracing the free-soli policies that Republicans such as Abraham Lincoln espoused. Commissioned a brigadier general in the Union army, one of many so-called political generals whom Lincoln rewarded for their loyalty, Schenck’s military career came to an abrupt end when he was wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. He returned to Congress, where, after the Civil War, he championed Radical Reconstruction. When he lost his bid for re- election in 1870, his old friend and fellow Ohioan, Ulysses S. Grant, appointed him minister to the Court of St. James.
Throughout 1871 and 1872, Schenck busied himself aiding the commission established in Treaty of Washington to adjudicate all contentious issues that remained between Great Britain and the United States. His ministry suffered ignominious finale when Schenck was implicated in the Emma Mine Company scandal, one among the many to disgrace the Grant administration. A member of the board of directors, Schenck had already incurred criticism from the British press for endorsing commercial activities in a country to which he was accredited. Schenck countered that the expenses of his office made such business ventures necessary,  » Read More
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