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	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 (3548 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 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.
		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.
	history.rays-place.com /bios/pres/20-garfield.htm (1295 words)

	White House Historical Association > White House Christmas Ornament
		James A. Garfield's monogram was prominently displayed on the walls of the new Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution, now the National Museum Building, 1881.
		James Garfield, the youngest of four children on a small farm in rural Cuyahoga County, Ohio, was born on November 19, 1831.
		James Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph (called “Crete” by her husband) were married on November 11, 1858, in Hiram, Ohio.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /01/subs/01_b_2005.html (1410 words)

	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.theusaonline.com /presidents/james-garfield.htm (848 words)

	James Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1863, Garfield became chief of staff to General William S. Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, and served in the Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns to which he obtained the reputation of being a sound military leader.
		Garfield was very much against slavery and thought that in no means could it be allowed to extend into any of the western territories.
		Garfield was the first left-handed president and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
	www.gamepuppet.com /presidents/james-garfield.htm (259 words)

	James Rudolph Garfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865 – March 24, 1950) was a U.S. politician, and son of President James A. Garfield.
		He was born in Hiram, Ohio, the third of eight children born to President Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield.
		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 (472 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)

	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)

	NJHM - The Death of a President 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Garfield was determined to graduate at a more prestigious eastern school, and after saving his money he decided upon Williams College in Massachusetts.
		In 1880, Garfield was elected to the United States Senate by the Ohio legislature and he began to prepare for the next chapter in his life.
		Garfield, perhaps sensing the end was near, grew impatient as the plans for his removal took longer than expected.
	www.njhm.com /garfield1.htm (1870 words)

	Biography of Lucretia Garfield
		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's election to the Presidency brought a cheerful family to the White House in 1881.
		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.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/lg20.html (513 words)

	James Garfield
		James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States.
		James was born in in a log cabin near Cuyahoga County, Ohio, near Cleveland in 1831.
		Garfield served in the House from 1863 to 1880.
	histclo.com /pres/ind19/garfield.html (2251 words)

	James Garfield (1831-1881)
		James A. Garfield is remembered as one of the four "lost Presidents" who served rather uneventfully after the Civil War.
		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.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/garfield.html (4981 words)

	James Rudolph Garfield Papers (Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Other aspects of Garfield's life documented in the collection include his involvement in the civic and cultural development of Cleveland and Mentor, Ohio, and his association with such organizations as the Roosevelt Memorial Association, the Academy of Political Science, and the National Conservation Association.
		Garfield's interest in politics from the time of his election to the Ohio senate in 1896, his only elective office, to his term as chairman of the platform committee for the Republican national convention in 1932 is documented throughout the collection.
		Helen Newell Garfield's papers document the life of a socially prominent wife of a government official and active politician and businessman.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/garfldjr.html (679 words)

	Logging onto a legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Garfield was born and lived as a young adult in Moreland Hills.
		James A. Garfield was born in 1831 in a part of Orange Township that became Moreland Hills.
		Garfield was one of four children, with a brother and two sisters.
	www.sunnews.com /news/1999/0429/ecabin.htm (776 words)

	James Garfield - American Presidents
		James A. Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States.
		Garfield sided with the Radical Republicans and was for both the Reconstruction acts and the impeachment of President Johnson.
		Garfield was elected in 1880 by the Ohio Legislature to serve in the US Senate, but he never took the office.
	www.american-presidents.com /presidents/james-garfield (928 words)

	National Park Service - The Presidents (James Garfield)
		Of New England ancestry, Garfield was born in 1831 at Orange Township in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
		Garfield soon received local acclaim in a debate with a pre-Darwin evolutionary theorist and made a statewide lecture tour on the subject.
		Garfield was peripherally involved in the Credit Mobilier as well as in a lesser charge of corruption with a construction contractor, but he emerged relatively untainted.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/presidents/bio20.htm (1252 words)

	American President
		Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph Garfield was well educated and shared her love of learning with others.
		Thus, when James A. Garfield became President in 1880, Lucretia was an inexperienced and anxious hostess who viewed both her husband's new duties and her own as a "terrible responsibility."
		James Blaine, a popular society matron and wife of Garfield's secretary of state, for tips on surviving the social whirl of Washington -- both in the reception line and outside of it.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesgarfield/firstlady (787 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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	Ready to raise the roof over Garfield log cabin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Garfield was born in 1831 in a part of Orange Village that became Moreland Hills.
		Garfield and his wife, Lucretia, are buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
		E.J., as the 3-year-old is known, is the great-great-great-great grandson of President Garfield.
	www.sunnews.com /news/1999/0729/ecabin.htm (600 words)

	James Abram Garfield — FactMonster.com
		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.
		Garfield's administration was barely under way when he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker, in Washington on July 2, 1881.
		James Abram GARFIELD - GARFIELD, James Abram (1831—1881) GARFIELD, James Abram, a Representative from Ohio and 20th...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0760605.html (303 words)

	Ancestors of James A. Garfield
		James Abram Garfield was born on November 19, 1831 Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
		Abram Garfield was born on December 28, 1799 Worcester, Otsego County, New York.
		James Ballou was born on April 25, 1761 Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island.
	www.conovergenealogy.com /Pages/garfield.htm (636 words)

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		Garfield was born in a log cabin in Cuyahogo County, Ohio.
		James Garfield was trained at Western Reserve Academy and Hiram College in Ohio, graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856.
		He planned to return to Hiram to teach mathematics, but, in the heat of the debate over slavery and the threat of war, he was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859.
	www.lycoszone.com /info/james-a-garfield--hiram-college.html (220 words)

	James Abram GARFIELD - Ancestor of Wayne Bower or Laurie McBurney
		James Abram GARFIELD - Ancestor of Wayne Bower or Laurie McBurney
		Biography: 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.
		James married Lucretia RUDOLPH on 11 Nov 1858 in Hiram, Portage County, Ohio, USA.
	web.ncf.ca /ab462/genealogy/790.htm (750 words)

	Did YOU Know? President Garfield was Assassinated by a Lawyer? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is pretty good evidence he was deranged for quite some time before he joined the campaign of Republican candidate, James Garfield.
		Lucretia ("Crete") Rudolph Garfield, the First Lady, was not with the President at the train station.
		Garfield returned to help care for her husband.
	www.lawbuzz.com /didyou/garfield/garfield.htm (292 words)

	President James A. Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Garfield had a short administration because he was shot on July 2, 1881.
		Guiteau was upset when he was refused a government job, so he decided to kill Garfield.
		Although Garfield had a short term as President, he made a difference for our country.
	www2.lhric.org /Pocantico/presidents/garfield.htm (201 words)

	JAMES A. GARFIELD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		JAMES A. Twentieth President of the U.S. March 4, 1881 to September 19, 1881.
		Garfield was shot while passing trough the Washington D.C. railroad station.
		Garfield had three funerals: one at Elberon, N.J., where he was taken September 6, 1881 to recuperate, another at Washington, D.C. and the third in Cleveland, OH.
	members.fortunecity.com /rebekah60/history/pres/20.htm (174 words)

	Dolley Madison, Lucretia Garfield, and Edith Wilson:Manuscript Division
		As the young widow of John Todd Jr., Dolley married James Madison in 1794, and from 1801 to 1809 she acted as White House hostess for fellow Virginian Thomas Jefferson while her husband served as the president's secretary of state.
		The first lady with the largest collection in the Manuscript Division is Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918) [catalog record], wife of James A. Garfield, who was elected president in 1880 and was assassinated less than a year later by a disgruntled job seeker.
		Of particular significance is her correspondence with her children and their families, some of which is included in the separately maintained papers of her sons Harry Augustus Garfield (60,000 items; 1888-1934) [catalog record] and James Rudolph Garfield (70,000 items; 1879-1950; bulk 1890-1932) [catalog record].
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/madison.html (624 words)

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		The papers of James Rudolph Garfield, attorney, businessman, politician, conservationist, and secretary of the interior, were received by the Library of Congress in 1953 and were made a gift in 1958 by his heirs, James Abram Garfield, Newell Garfield, Mrs.
		The papers of James Rudolph Garfield (1865-1950) span the years 1879-1950 with the bulk of the material dating from 1890 to 1932.
		Family letters seen by James A. Garfield (1831-1881), father of James Randolph Garfield and twentieth president of the United States, have been transferred and indexed with his papers.
	memory.loc.gov /mss/eadmss/ms003043/ms003043.sgm (1066 words)

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