When President Garfield was assassinated in 1881 by an insane and disappointed office-seeker, the
movement for civil service reform would finally produce legislative results. Eaton would be prominent
in providing the language for the Pendleton Act of 1883, which created a federal civil service system
based on merit. Under the act, a civil service commission was established and a class of civil service was
created where employees would be hired through open competitive examinations and promoted and
retained based on merit. Thus, at the federal level, progress toward implementing reform was generally
measured in terms of the percentage of government employees who were in the classified service.
While the Pendleton Act did not make civil service mandatory for all federal agencies, coverage under
civil service would grow from 10 percent in the 1880s to nearly 70 percent between the world wars.
When President Garfield was assassinated in 1881 by an insane and disappointed office-seeker, themovement for civil service reform would finally produce legislative results. Eaton would be prominentin providing the language for the Pendleton Act of 1883, which created a federal civil service systembased on merit. Under the act, a civil service commission was established and a class of civil service wascreated where employees would be hired through open competitive examinations and promoted andretained based on merit. Thus, at the federal level, progress toward implementing reform was generallymeasured in terms of the percentage of government employees who were in the classified service.While the Pendleton Act did not make civil service mandatory for all federal agencies, coverage undercivil service would grow from 10 percent in the 1880s to nearly 70 percent between the world wars.
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