Joseph Homan Manley
Joseph Homan Manley (October 13, 1842–1905) was an American Republican Party official (chairman of the party's National Executive Committee 1894–96) and close associate of Maine Republican politician and presidential candidate James G. Blaine. Biography Born in Bangor, Maine, Manley first attended school in Farmington, Maine, and subsequently studied law in Boston and graduated from Albany Law School in 1863. In 1866 he was president of the Augusta, Maine City Council, where he first became associated with Blaine. From 1869 to 1876, he was an agent of the Internal Revenue Service, posted in various cities around the northeast, and in 1876-78 was an agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in its tax dealings with the Federal government. Manley then returned to Maine and, purchasing a half-interest in the newspaper The Maine Farmer (formally edited by his father), made it into a major voice for Blaine-style Republicanism. Blaine subsequently secured Manley's appointment as Augusta's U.S. postmaster (an important federal post under the then-existing spoils system). The large Richardsonian Romanesque U.S. Post Office Building in Augusta is one of his legacies. Manley subsequently became Blaine's right-hand man on the Maine Republican State Committee, on which he served 1881–1900, and which he chaired for 15