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	Biography of James Garfield
		As the last of the log cabin Presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measure of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction period.
		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.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/jg20.html (601 words)

	James Garfield - MSN Encarta
		Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker gave new impetus to demands for reform of the federal employment system, called the civil service.
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566237/James_A_Garfield.html (496 words)

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		James Abram Garfield was born November 19th, 1831, at Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, descending from Welsh and Huguenot ancestry.
		James A Garfield was born on November 19, 1831, in Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
		JAMES A. GARFIELD ��James A. Garfield was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831.
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	James Garfield
		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/presidents/garfield.html (398 words)

	President James Garfield — James Garfield in the U.S. Federal Census
		President James Garfield — James Garfield in the U.S. Federal Census
		James A. Garfield was born on 19 November 1831 and first appeared in the U.S. Census in 1840.
		Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from 1881 until his assasination on July 2nd of that year while standing in a Washington railroad station.
	www.celebritycensus.com /presidents_james_garfield.php (651 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - 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's assassin was apparently upset by being passed over as the United States consul in Paris.
	www.usa-presidents.info /garfield.htm (842 words)

	James Garfield
		The twentieth president of the United States, James A. Garfield was born on the 19th of November 1831 in a log cabin in the little frontier town of Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio.
		In 1876 Garfield for the eighth time was chosen to represent his district; and afterwards as one of the two representatives of the Republicans in the House, he was a member of the Electoral Commission which decided the dispute regarding the presidential election of 1876.
		When, in 1877, James G. Blaine was made a senator from Maine, the leadership of the House of Representatives passed to Garfield, and he became the Republican candidate for speaker.
	www.nndb.com /people/434/000026356 (1067 words)

	James A. Garfield
		James Abram Garfield, born November 19, 1831, was the last American president to be born in a log cabin.
		Garfield became a major general in the Union Army during the Civil War and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, where he served on the Military Affairs Committee and the Ways and Means Committee and became an expert in public finance.
		Garfield was elected to the Senate in 1880 but never served, as he also was elected president.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/garfield.cfm (259 words)

	President James Garfield : Health & Medical History
		Garfield had a bad cold in 1851 that was treated by a homeopathic practitioner, Alpheus Morrill, with "cold cloths applied to the chest and infinitesimal doses of medicine." [3]
		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, 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 (1232 words)

	SparkNotes: James Garfield: Section One: The Log Cabin
		Garfield was the youngest of the five children born to Abram and Eliza Ballou Garfield.
		Garfield's parents met when they were both children, and when his mother moved West to Ohio, his father followed her and proposed.
		On Sundays, Eliza Garfield and her children walked three miles to attend church, and when James was old enough for schooling, she allowed the town to build a schoolhouse on the edge of the property.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/garfield/section1.html (525 words)

	James Garfield
		James was born in in a log cabin near Cuyahoga County, Ohio, near Cleveland in 1831.
		In the fond eyes of her husband, President James A. Garfield, Lucretia "grows up to every new emergency with fine tact and faultless taste." She proved this in the eyes of the nation, though she was always a reserved, self-contained woman.
		Garfield was not particularly interested in a First Lady's social duties, she was deeply conscientious and her genuine hospitality made her dinners and twice-weekly receptions enjoyable.
	histclo.com /pres/ind19/garfield.html (2251 words)

	Presidential Avenue: James Garfield
		Garfield's desk from his nine terms as a U.S. congressman sits in the library, as well as the floral wreath sent to his funeral by Queen Victoria.
		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.
		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.
	www.presidentialavenue.com /jg.cfm (1488 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)

	Prints Old & Rare - James Garfield page
		Garfield's portrait is framed with an ornate circular border of assorted flowers and foilage.
		Engraving depicts President Garfield lying in his bed, as two men use their equipment in trying to ascertain the exact location of the bullet that wounded him.
		President Garfield was born in Orange, Ohio, on November 19, 1831; He died in Elberon, New Jersey, on September 19, 1881.
	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 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 Abram Garfield Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		James A. Garfield was born in the log cabin of American myth on Nov. 19, 1831, near Cleveland, Ohio.
		Garfield's military career reflected the dexterity with which he would later escape political crises unscathed, for although he was closely associated with several disasters that ruined associates, he himself escaped blame.
		Garfield knew before the convention that certain parties were working for him as a compromise candidate, but he neither encouraged nor effectively discouraged the talk.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/james-abram-garfield (1235 words)

	Garfield, James Abram. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		Former President Grant, who had wanted the nomination, and his supporter, Roscoe Conkling, gave Garfield only formal aid in the election—and allegedly even that was conditioned on a promise of a share in the President’s political favors.
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ga/GarfieldJA.html (487 words)

	James A Garfield National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
		James A. Garfield acquired this home in 1876 to accommodate his large family.
		Garfield and her family - setting the precedent for presidential libraries.
		The James A. Garfield National Historic Site was given the name Lawnfield by reporters in 1880.
	www.nps.gov /jaga (260 words)

	J. A. Garfield
		If you are a Garfield senior citizen be sure you have your gold G-Man card for free admission to all home activities; call 527-4336 or stop for your free lifetime pass at the Orson E. Ott Administrative Offices between 8am-4pm.
		As you have heard recently, the State is offering the James A. Garfield School District "matching" monies to completely renovate or construct new buildings as per the State's requirements.
		The Garfield School personnel desire to serve students, parents and community members.
	www.garfield.sparcc.org (534 words)

	James Garfield Beck and Ethel Benson Beck
		James Garfield Beck and Ethel Benson Beck were two of the most glamorous and influential members of Knoxville's fl community during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s.
		She made good on that promise, and by 1941 the name of the orphanage was changed to the Ethel Beck Home For Children.
		James Beck was a life-long Republican, who served as a sergeant-at-arms at the 1940 National Republican Convention.
	www.tnstate.edu /library/digital/BECK.htm (431 words)

	James Abram GARFIELD — Infoplease.com
		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.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/garfield-james-abram.html (625 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 (772 words)

	James Garfield (1831-1881) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Garfield was able to put his financial expertise, which was acquired through his congressional committee experience, to work by recalling government bonds that were paying 6 percent interest.
		James A. Garfield's foreign policy activities were limited to filling vacant diplomatic positions, most notably his appointments of writer James Russell Lowell as U.S. minister to England and Lew Wallace, a former Union general and popular writer, to the post in Turkey.
		During Garfield's short term in office, Secretary of State Blaine was so involved with patronage matters that he had little time to deal with Latin American affairs, the Chinese immigration issue, or fishing disputes with the British in the Pacific—all of which demanded his attention.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/garfield.html (4981 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 returned to Hiram, became principal of the Eclectic in 1858, and instilled new life into the school.
		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.
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	James A. Garfield
		James Garfield was the second president shot in office.
		But the device failed because Garfield was placed on a bed with metal springs, and no one thought to move him.
		President Garfield shot by Charles Jules Guiteau on July 2; dies on Sept. 19.
	www.course-notes.org /biographies/jamesabramgarfield.htm (683 words)

	Miller Center — James Garfield Papers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most comprehensive collection of Garfield material is the Library of Congress collection of his papers which is available in microfilm.
		The Diary of James A. Garfield (1848-1881) 4 vols.
		Politics and Patronage in the Gilded Age: The Correspondence of James A. Garfield and Charles E. Henry.
	millercenter.virginia.edu /scripps/reference/papers/garfield.html (258 words)

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