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	James Garfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, at the Republican National Convention Garfield gained support for the party's presidential nomination, and on the 36th ballot Garfield was nominated, with virtually all of James G. Blaine and John Sherman's delegates breaking ranks to vote for the dark horse nominee.
		James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831– September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated.
		Of the 256 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem in the "Pythagorean Proposition" by Elisha Scott Loomis, one is attributed to Garfield.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_A._Garfield (1564 words)

	JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD, USA
		James Abram Garfield was born in a log cabin in Cuyahogo County, Ohio.
		Garfield was a leading House member, who dealt with financial members, and served at different times as Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, Appropriations Committee and as a member of the Ways and Means Committee.
		Garfield was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Union army in August 1861.
	www.multied.com /bio/UGENS/USAGarfield.html (379 words)

	President James A. Garfield
		JAMES A. twentieth President of the United States, was born November 19, 1831, in the woods of Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
		Garfield made his first political speeches in 1856, in Hiram and the neighboring villages, and three years later he began to speak at county mass-meetings, and became the favorite speaker wherever he was.
		Garfield was united in mairiage, November 11, 1858, with Miss Lucretia Rudolph, who proved herself worthy as the wife of one whom all the world loved.
	history.rays-place.com /bios/pres/20-garfield.htm (1295 words)

	James A. Garfield
		James A. Garfield entered Williams in the autumn of 1854 and graduated with the highest honors in the class of 1856.
		James A. Garfield started school at the age of three, attending classes in a log hut and learned to read and began a habit of reading that would only end with his life.
		James A. Garfield was elected the United States Senator from Ohio in 1880.
	www.jamesgarfield.org (3497 words)

	MSN Encarta - James Garfield
		James Abram Garfield was born on November 19, 1831.
		One of the sons, James Rudolph Garfield, later served as secretary of the interior under President Theodore Roosevelt.
		Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker gave new impetus to demands for reform of the federal employment system, called the civil service.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566237/James_Garfield.html (539 words)

	President James Garfield: Health & Medical History
		The Fatal Bullet: The True Account of the Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and Burial of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Paperback))
		Garfield, who was severely ill, be transferred to the New Jersey seashore, away from the malarious swamps that reached the backyard of the White House.
		After the shooting, Garfield was treated with high maintenance doses of quinine (5 to 10 grains per day) and morphine (one-fourth grain daily), frequent sips of brandy, and a single dose of calomel.
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g20.htm (1026 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - James A. Garfield
		James Garfield's father was a farmer in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
		He died before James was two, and the child was raised by his mother and older brother.
		They were very poor, and James had little chance to go to school, but he went to school wherever and whenever he could.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Presidents/Garfield,JamesA.html (312 words)

	James Abram Garfield: Raw Deal
		James Garfield was the 20th president of the United States.
		Garfield's wound was not fatal, and enlightened medical care - certainly available to a man of his stature at that time - would have saved him.
		However, Garfield had the misfortune of being shot - after only four months in office - by a syphilis-crazed assassin who intended to become "ruler of the world." He had the even greater misfortune of not dying.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Garfield/fr2gar.htm (229 words)

	James Garfield
		James Garfield, the son of a poor farmer, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on 19th November, 1831.
		A strong opponent of slavery, Garfield was one of the founders of the Republican Party and in 1859 was elected to the Ohio legislature.
		Garfield opposed the policies of President Andrew Johnson and argued in Congress that Southern plantations should be taken from their owners and divided among the former slaves.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAgarfield.htm (1236 words)

	Presidential Avenue: James Garfield
		Memorial, Washington, DC Standing near the U.S. Capitol is a bronze figure of James Garfield on a granite pedestal with three bronze figures at the base depicts him as a student, warrior, and statesman.
		On July 2, 1881, James A. Garfield was shot in the back as he walked with secretary of state Blaine in the Washington, D.C. train station.
		Garfield's home has just recently undergone a top-to-bottom restoration.The home was restored to the period 1880-1904, during which President Garfield campaigned for president and two major additions were made to the home.
	www.presidentialavenue.com /jg.cfm (1488 words)

	James A. Garfield - From Poverty-To Preacher-To President
		President James A. Garfield is having a relaxing morning in the White House.
		Garfield’s vision for the Presidency was the final healing between the North and the South.
		Garfield believed in both the concept and reality of democracy; in freedom, equality, and dignity for all Americans; and in the overall wisdom of the masses.
	www.mrpresidents.com /Garfield.html (1023 words)

	James A. Garfield
		James Abram Garfield was born in Orange, Ohio, near Cleveland, the son of a farmer and canal worker.
		Garfield raised a volunteer force to fight on the Union side in the Civil War and saw action at Shiloh and Chickamauga.
		Garfield was widely regarded as a superb orator, drawing upon skills he had developed as a preacher.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h724.html (630 words)

	James A Garfield National Historic Site (National Park Service)
		James A. Garfield was President from March 4, 1881 until his death on September 19, 1881.
		James A. Garfield NHS is operated by the National Park Service and the Western Reserve Historical Society.
		James A. Garfield National Historic Site preserves the property associated with the 20th President of the United States.
	www.nps.gov /jaga (113 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		James Abram Garfield was born in a log cabin near Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 19, 1831, the youngest of five children of Abram and Eliza Ballou Garfield.
		Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881), 20th president of the United States.
		Garfield's humble origin, his political record, his conduct as a candidate, a vigorous Republican campaign, and the political inexperience of his rival brought a narrow victory.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0171100-00 (1322 words)

	Prints Old & Rare - James Garfield page
		Beautiful black and white engraving of James A. Garfield, President Elect of the United States and Chester A. Arthur, Vice President Elect of the United States.
		James A. Garfield - Photographed by J.F. Ryder, Cleveland, Ohio.
		Garfield's portrait is framed with an ornate circular border of assorted flowers and foilage.
	www.printsoldandrare.com /garfield (1783 words)

	American President
		James A. Garfield is remembered as one of the four "lost Presidents" who served rather uneventfully after the Civil War.
		Garfield was a loyal Unionist who built a reputation as a Civil War hero that earned him a seat in the House of Representatives without ever having campaigned.
		Garfield studied law on his own and passed the Ohio bar exams in 1861 before throwing himself into politics and winning a seat in the Ohio legislature.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesgarfield (793 words)

	James A. Garfield
		James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
		He was named after his older brother James, who died in infancy, and his father, Abram Garfield.
		Garfield was the last of seven presidents to be born in a log cabin.
	www.geocities.com /presfacts/garfield.html (126 words)

	US Presidents - James A. Garfield
		Garfield was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Republican.
		Garfield weighed ten pounds when he was born and was the last president born in a log cabin.
		Garfield countered by withdrawing all nominations except Robertson's; the Senators would have to confirm him or sacrifice all the appointments of Conkling's friends.
	www.juntosociety.com /uspresidents/jagarfield.html (896 words)

	SparkNotes: James Garfield: Section five: Civil War
		Garfield refused to obey the order, despite the threat of a court-martial, arguing that neither he nor his men had joined the army to hunt slaves.
		Garfield volunteered to carry the notice of the retreat to Thomas and rode through heavy enemy fire that downed two members of his party.
		In June, 1862, Garfield oversaw the rebuilding of the bridges on the Memphis and Charleston railroad and helped with the fortification of Huntsville; several colleagues observed that he displayed a surprising knowledge of engineering considering that he had never formally studied it.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/garfield/section5.rhtml (556 words)

	The American Presidency
		This object was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1909 by James Garfield, son of the president.
		When President James Garfield was assassinated on July 2, 1881, legend suggests that his body fell on this section of tile taken from the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station.
		When James A. Garfield was attacked on July 2, 1881, the nation was shocked, enraged, and captivated.
	americanhistory.si.edu /presidency/3d1d.html (384 words)

	Garfield, James Rudolph on Encyclopedia.com
		GARFIELD, JAMES RUDOLPH [Garfield, James Rudolph] 1865-1950, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1907-9), b.
		Hiram, Ohio; son of President James A. Garfield.
		Garfield was a noted advocate of the conservation of natural resources.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-G1arfieldJ1R1.asp (189 words)

	James Abram Garfield
		James Abram GARFIELD - GARFIELD, James Abram (1831—1881) GARFIELD, James Abram, a Representative from Ohio and 20th...
		James Abram Garfield - Garfield, James Abram, 1831–81, 20th President of the United States (Mar.–Sept., 1881).
		In 1880, Garfield was elected to the Senate, but instead became the presidential candidate on the 36th ballot as a result of a deadlock in the Republican convention.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0760605.html (321 words)

	Miller Center — James Garfield Papers
		Politics and Patronage in the Gilded Age: The Correspondence of James A. Garfield and Charles E. Henry.
		The Diary of James A. Garfield (1848-1881) 4 vols.
		James A. Garfield Papers (Library of Congress, 177 reels).
	millercenter.virginia.edu /scripps/reference/papers/garfield.html (258 words)

	James Garfield
		James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States may have been shot by a would-be assassin, but he was actually killed by his great team of doctors.
		Garfield was only in office for two-hundred days when he fell into the hands of his killers - the medical profession.
		Garfield was rushed to the White House, having never lost consciousness.
	home.nycap.rr.com /useless/garfield (1111 words)

	James A. Garfield -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Garfield, James A. Born in a log cabin, James Abram Garfield rose by his own efforts to become a college president, a major general in the Civil War, a leader in Congress, and finally president of the United States.
		Garfield, James A. 20th president of the United States (March 4–September 19, 1881), who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history.
		Through the open windows he could hear newsboys shouting, “President Garfield is dying!” Around midnight he received a telegram from the members of James A. Garfield's Cabinet informing him of the president's death and advising him to...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036074 (823 words)

	History House: Garfield I: Who Shot Garfield?
		Charles Julius Guiteau was the assassin of President James Garfield in 1881.
		Shortly after his inauguration in 1881, President James A. Garfield was assassinated by one mildly loopy Charles Julius Guiteau.
		The Murder of James A. Garfield : The President's Last Days and the Trial and Execution of His Assassin.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/guiteau (1824 words)

	James A. Garfield: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
		Congressman Garfield had been nominated on his party's 36th ballot at the convention; and he had won the popular vote by a slim margin.
		The former Civil War general was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice Morrison Waite on the snow-covered East Portico of the Capitol.
	www.bartleby.com /124/pres36.html (2666 words)

	Internet Public Library: POTUS
		James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
		James A. Garfield -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
		James A. Garfield -- from The American Presidency
	www.ipl.org /div/potus/jagarfield.html (349 words)

	James A. Garfield Papers (Library of Congress)
		The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of James Abram Garfield is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
		_See Oversize_ Garfield, Eliza Ballou (mother), eulogy on her death, 1888 Stanley-Brown, Mary ("Mollie") Garfield (daughter) Diaries and account book, 1881-89 (3 folders) Letters from Blaine, Harriet S., 1881 Garfield, James A. (father), 1870, 1877 Garfield, James R. (brother), ca.
		The Miscellany contains printed matter concerning Garfield's Civil War service, political career, presidential election campaign, assassination, and memorial tributes.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/garfield.html (264 words)

	James Garfield, Anatifacts n m h m
		On the morning of July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau fired two shots at President James Garfield as he entered a Washington, DC train station.
		Medical historians believe Garfield could have survived his injury if the attending physicians had washed their hands and used sterile instruments.
		President Garfield died on September 19 of complications from his injuries.
	nmhm.washingtondc.museum /explore/anatifacts/1_garfield.html (165 words)

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