Led by New York Senator Roscoe Conkling, the Stalwart, anti-reform faction on the Republican party believed in the blatant pursuit of the spoils of office. Their main party rivals were the more circumspect Half-Breeds.

The Stalwarts are members of the Freedom Party in Harry Turtledove's series of books dealing with a Confederate States of America surviving past World War I and experiencing a bout of fascism.