 Blaine spent the summer of 1892 at his Bar Harbor cottage , and did not involve himself in the presidential campaign other than to make a single speech in New York in October . Harrison was defeated soundly in his rematch against former president Cleveland and when Blaine returned to Washington at the close of 1892 , he and Harrison were friendlier than they had been in years . Blaine 's health declined rapidly in the winter of 1892 – 1893 , and he died in his Washington home on January 27 , 1893 . After a funeral at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant , he was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington . He was later re @-@ interred in Blaine Memorial Park , Augusta , Maine , in 1920 . 
