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James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had e…
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Born 19 November 1831 · Died 19 September 1881 · Q34597
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s death; the inevitable infection and blood poisoning that would ensue from a deep bullet wound resulted in damage to multiple organs and spinal fragmentation. Rutkow, a professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, has argued that starvation also played a role. Rutkow suggests
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“s death; the inevitable infection and blood poisoning that would ensue from a deep bullet wound resulted in damage to multiple organs and spinal fragmentation. Rutkow, a professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, has argued that starvation also played a role. Rutkow suggests”
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“Oh Swaim, this terrible pain—press your hand on it.”
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“I would say Grant was not fit to be nominated and Greeley is not fit to be elected.”
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“s attempts to render Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and William H. Emory personal tools of his demonstrated intent to disregard the law and override the Constitution, suggesting that Johnson”
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WFMJ: Grenade training to be conducted at Camp James A. Garfield near Newton Falls Thursday
The Hollywood Reporter: How ‘Death by Lightning’ Made James Garfield’s Assassination Feel “Shakespearean”
Cleveland.com: Edgar Allan Poe performances return to James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor
The News-Herald: James A. Garfield National Historic Site reopens after weekslong closure
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The News-Herald: James A. Garfield, his assassin, front and center in ‘Death by Lightning’
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The National Park Service erected exhibit panels in Washington to mark the site of his assassination
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Caldwell wrote: "If Garfield lives in history, it will be partly on account of the charm of his personality—but also because in life and in death, he struck the first shrewd blows against a dangerous system of boss rule
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Garfield's body was permanently interred, with great solemnity and fanfare, in a mausoleum in Lake View Cemetery
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Sculptor Frank Happersberger completed a monument on the grounds of the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
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As the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act and signed into law by his successor, Chester A
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Seven months after Garfield's death, the U
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And he was sentenced to death by hanging
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To mediate disputes among the Latin American nations and to serve as a forum for talks on increasing trade
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Died 1881-09-19.
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Garfield was shot by Charles J
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1881–1881).
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“For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.”
“I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.”
“I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.”
“I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.”
“The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.”
“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.”
Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1880–1881).
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Had determined to gain federal office by supporting what he expected would be the winning Republican ticket
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President Hayes had nominated Stanley Matthews to the Supreme Court but the Senate declined to act on the nomination
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Seeing that as a road likely to take Garfield to the White House
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Called Lincoln "one of the few great rulers whose wisdom increased with his power"
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“Greatest among all these developments were the character and fame of Abraham Lincoln,”
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And his advocacy of using statistics to inform government policy
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Garfield purchased the property in Mentor that reporters later dubbed Lawnfield, where he later conducted the first successful front porch campaign for the presidency
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Garfield developed a trapezoid proof of the Pythagorean theorem, which was published in the New England Journal of Education
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Meant the loss of Garfield's chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee, though the Democrats did put him on the Ways and Means Committee
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Garfield confirmed much of this
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After Chase's death, Garfield appealed to Grant to appoint Justice Noah H
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“[The] Fifteen Amendment confers on the African race the care of its own destiny. It places their fortunes in their own hands.”
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Congress took up the Ku Klux Klan Act, which was designed to combat attacks on African Americans' suffrage rights
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Garfield traveled to Montana Territory to negotiate the removal of the Bitterroot Salish tribe to the Flathead Indian Reservation
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Were thorough but found no indictable offenses and exonerated Grant and Julia of wrongdoing
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As a triumph and favored Georgia's readmission to the Union as a matter of right, not politics
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During Grant's first term in office, two New York conspirators, Jay Gould and James Fisk, launched a scheme to corner the gold market
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Garfield had moved away from the remaining radicals (Stevens, their leader, had died in 1868)
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When the House impeached Johnson, but gave a speech aligning himself with Thaddeus Stevens and others who sought Johnson's removal shortly thereafter
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Voted to pass the resolution that authorized the second impeachment inquiry against Andrew Johnson (run by the House Select Committee on Reconstruction)
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Garfield gave a two-hour speech on currency in the House, which was widely applauded as his best oratory to that point; in it, he advocated a gradual resumption of specie payments, that is, the government paying out silv
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Voted against the unsuccessful resolution to impeach Johnson that the House Committee on the Judiciary had sent the full House
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Garfield voted in support of the resolution that launched the first impeachment inquiry against Andrew Johnson (run by the House Committee on the Judiciary)
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And though Republicans held the majority in the House until 1875, Garfield remained off that committee
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Was put on the House Ways and Means Committee, a long-awaited opportunity to focus on financial and economic issues
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Garfield became a partner in the law firm of Jeremiah Black
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Career landmark: United States representative (1863–1880).
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In the Battle of Middle Creek, the only pitched battle Garfield commanded personally
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Where Garfield's cavalry engaged the rebels at Jenny's Creek
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Garfield became a Freemason, at Magnolia Lodge, No
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Of a newspaper editor who had assisted two runaway slaves
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Married Lucretia, and they had seven children, five of whom survived infancy
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Was made its principal, though he did not see education as a field that would realize his full potential
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Studied at Hiram College (1851–1854).
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When he was baptized by being submerged in the icy waters of the Chagrin River
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Religious inquiry was a high priority for Garfield
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Began at Geauga Seminary, in nearby Chester Township, Geauga County, Ohio
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And was rejected for work on the only ship in port in Cleveland
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But soon left her second husband, Warren (or Alfred) Belden, and a divorce was awarded in 1850
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In a log cabin in Orange Township, which later became Moreland Hills, Ohio
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Born 1831-11-19.
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