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* 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
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1883 and Pendleton
In 1883, The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was passed, stipulating government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit through competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation.
Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier.
He proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed in 1883 by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
Garfield's persistent call for civil service reform, however, was fulfilled with the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, enacted by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1883.
Later, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 established the civil service and extended the protections of the Naval Appropriations Bill to all federal civil service workers.
Moderation of the spoils system at the federal level came with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883, which created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
The British adopted a meritocratic civil service following the Northcote-Trevelyan Report in 1853, and the Americans did likewise in 1883, with the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
This was changed in slow stages by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 and subsequent laws.
He is best known as the principal author of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.
During this time, he sponsored the Pendleton Act of 1883 in response to the assassination of President James A. Garfield by Charles Guiteau.
* William N. Pendleton ( 1809 – 1883 ), American teacher, Episcopal priest, and Confederate general
* Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, 1883 law of the US Congress establishing the United States Civil Service Commission
The 1883 Civil Service Reform Act ( or Pendleton Act ), which placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called " spoils system ", permitted the professionalization and rationalization of the federal administration.
Although the Pendleton Act of 1883 established the United States Civil Service Commission, and made competency and merit the base qualifications for government positions, its effective implementation was slow.
To prevent further political violence and to assuage public outrage, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in 1883, which set up the Civil Service Commission.
OPM was originally founded as the United States Civil Service Commission by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.
The United States Civil Service Commission was a three-man commission created by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which was passed into law on January 16, 1883.
Public disgust over the Star Routes graft served as an impetus for civil service reform and the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in 1883.
In 1883 the detached portion of Pendlebury was absorbed by Pendleton.
The U. S. Civil Service Commission, established by the Pendleton Act in 1883, was debarring persons relating to “ loyalty ” as late as 1921.
* January 16, 1883: Pendleton Civil Service Act
William Nelson Pendleton ( December 26, 1809 – January 15, 1883 ) was an American teacher, Episcopal priest, and soldier.
Pendleton remained in Lexington until his death in 1883, and is buried in the city's Grace Church Cemetery.
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