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  1. In US history, a civil service reform bill
  2. 1883 sponsored by senator George Pendleton
  3. (1825-1889) of Ohio that was designed to curb
  4. the power of patronage exercised by new
  5. administrations over a swelling federal
  6. bureaucracy. Initially about 10% of civil
  7. service appointments were made subject to
  8. competitive examinations administered by an
  9. independent Civil Service Commission.
  10.