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	James A. Garfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Garfield became increasingly ill over a period of several weeks due to infection which caused his heart to weaken and died 80 days after he was shot, of a massive heart attack or a ruptured aortic aneurism, following blood poisoning and bronchial pneumonia at 10:35 p.m.
		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_Garfield (1507 words)

	Encyclopedia: James Garfield
		James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th (1881) President of the United States, the first left-handed President, and the second U.S. President to be assassinated.
		Garfield decided that being an academician was not his desire, and studied law privately, becoming admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1860.
		Garfield may have survived had the doctors attending him shown a greater degree of competency; unsterilized fingers were inserted into the wound to probe for the bullet, and one doctor punctured Garfield's liver doing so.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-Garfield (1134 words)

	MSN Encarta - James Garfield
		James Abram Garfield was born on November 19, 1831.
		Abram Garfield, a farmer and canal construction worker, died when James was two years old, leaving his widow and four children to face the rigors of frontier life.
		One of the sons, James Rudolph Garfield, later served as secretary of the interior under President Theodore Roosevelt.
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	JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD, USA
		James Abram Garfield was born in a log cabin in Cuyahogo County, Ohio.
		Garfield was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Union army in August 1861.
		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.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAGarfield.html (379 words)

	James Abram Garfield
		Abram Garfield made a prosperous beginning in his new home, but died, after a sudden illness, at the age of thirty-three, leaving a widow with four small children, of whom James was the youngest.
		Garfield's speeches are almost a compendium of the political history of the stirring era between 1864 and 1880.
		Garfield during her life, after which the principal is to be divided among the children --four sons and a daughter.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesabramgarfield (5911 words)

	James A. Garfield
		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 entered Williams in the autumn of 1854 and graduated with the highest honors in the class of 1856.
		Garfield, not daunted at all, concentrated his little force and moved it with such rapidity, sometimes here and sometimes there, that General Marshall was deceived by his moves and still more by false reports which were skillfully prepared for him.
	www.jamesgarfield.org (3497 words)

	James A. Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abram was farmer and a canal construction worker; he died when James was only two years old.
		James was the man of the house; he grew up into hardship and work to support his family.
		In September of 1856 Garfield became the principal of the institute and continued to preach in the Disciples of Christ Church.
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	James A. Garfield
		James Garfield was the second president shot in office.
		Garfield was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Republican.
		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.course-notes.org /biographies/jamesabramgarfield.htm (683 words)

	President James Garfield: Health & Medical History
		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.
		Garfield's original wound was 3.5 inches long, and ended with the bullet lodged in a harmless part of the abdomen.
		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.
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g20.htm (1026 words)

	James Rudolph Garfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865-March 24, 1950) U.S. politician, He was born in Hiram, Ohio, as the third of eight children born to President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield.
		The President and his son were waiting for a train enroute for Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where young James had been recently accepted, when the shooting took place.
		That same year, he was admitted to the Ohio bar and established the Cleveland, Ohio-based law firm of Garfield and Garfield, with his brother Harry Augustus Garfield.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Rudolph_Garfield (326 words)

	Abram Joffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James Abram Garfield Brief summary of Garfield's life, career and cabinet from the Internet Public Library.
		James Abram Garfield Distant relative provides interesting biography of Garfield with genealogy chart as well.
		Colonel Abram Penn Chapter - NSDAR Official homepage of the Colonel Abram Penn Chapter - National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
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	James Abram Garfield: Raw Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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's overcautious doctors decided that the best thing for the injured president was to let him lie in bed, week after grueling blast furnace Washington summer week - and do virtually nothing.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Garfield/fr2gar.htm (229 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Abram Garfield (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Garfield was prominent in the settlement of the disputed election of 1876 (in which Rutherford B. Hayes was finally adjudged the winner), but in 1880 he was still only moderately well known nationally.
		After Garfield had defeated W. Hancock and was President, he passed over Conkling's "Stalwarts" in his appointments and appointed James G. Blaine, Conkling's political enemy, Secretary of State.
		Garfield was a brilliant orator and an able, knowing, and charming man. He had shown little originality or force in his 17 years as Congressman, and his early death prevented him from showing whether or not he might have demonstrated statesmanship as President.
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	James Abram Garfield
		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.
		James Abram Garfield - Garfield, James Abram, 1831–81, 20th President of the United States (Mar.–Sept., 1881).
		James Abram GARFIELD - GARFIELD, James Abram (1831—1881) GARFIELD, James Abram, a Representative from Ohio and 20th...
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	GARFIELD, James Abram (1831-1881) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James A. Garfield, of Ohio, in reply to Hon.
		Garfield, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, April 14, 1866, in memory of Abraham Lincoln.
		James A. Garfield, of Ohio, on the confiscation of property of rebels.
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	James A. Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
		Garfield was the last of seven presidents to be born in a log cabin.
		Garfield was the only president to have been a preacher.
	www.geocities.com /presfacts/garfield.html (126 words)

	American President
		James A. Garfield is remembered as one of the four "lost Presidents" who served rather uneventfully after the Civil War.
		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.
		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.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesgarfield (793 words)

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

	USA-Presidents.Info - James Garfield
		He was named for his older brother James Ballou Garfield, who died in infancy, and his father, Abram Garfield.
		His father died in 1833, when James Abram was 18 months old, and he grew up cared for by his mother and an uncle.
		Garfield's assassin was apparently upset by being passed over as the United States consul in Paris.
	www.usa-presidents.info /garfield.htm (858 words)

	James A. Garfield -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the start of the (A war between factions in the same country) Civil War, Garfield enlisted in the (The northern army during the American Civil War) Union Army, and was assigned to command the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
		Garfield was a leader of the " (Half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)) Half-Breeds," who supported (Government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations) civil service reform and Hayes's relatively lenient treatment of the postwar South.
		Garfield became increasingly ill over a period of several months due to infection and died 80 days after he was shot, on September 19, 1881 in Elberon, (A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies) New Jersey.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_a._garfield.htm (2035 words)

	1666. James Abram Garfield (1831-81). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
		JAMES A. speech nominating John Sherman for president.—Proceedings of the Republican National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 2–8, 1880, p.
		Garfield himself was ultimately nominated at this convention.
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	James A. Garfield
		Garfield was to fight for the North as a two-star general.
		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.
		Garfield’s vision for the Presidency was the final healing between the North and the South.
	www.mrpresidents.com /Garfield.html (1022 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - James Abram Garfield
		James Garfield was the 20th president of the United States.
		Garfield, a Republican, served only four months in office before he was shot and mortally wounded, in 1881, by a disgruntled federal job-seeker.
		Garfield, James Abram; President of the United States
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	James Abram Garfield
		Garfield was prominent in the settlement of the disputed election of 1876 (in which Rutherford B. Hayes
		After Garfield had defeated W. Hancock and was President, he passed over Conkling's “Stalwarts”; in his appointments and appointed James G. Blaine, Conkling's political enemy, Secretary of State.
		James Abram Garfield - James Abram Garfield Born: 11/19/1831 Birthplace: Cuyahoga County, Ohio James Abram Garfield, the...
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	James Abram Garfield (1881) - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Garfield replied with, This...will settle the question whether the President is registering clerk of the Senate or the Executive of the United States...
		While Garfield's presidency was cut short by an assassin, his accomplishments in his 200 days in office were remarkable.
		Garfield was a brigadier general during the Civil War fighting on the Union side.
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