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	Lucretia Garfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832 - 1918), wife of James A. Garfield, was First Lady of the United States in 1881.
		Born to Zeb Rudolph, a leading citizen of Hiram, Ohio, and devout member of the Disciples of Christ, she first met "Jim" Garfield when both attended a nearby school, and they renewed their friendship in 1851 as students at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, founded by the Disciples.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucretia_Garfield (438 words)

	James A. Garfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Garfield was also a minister for the Church of Christ and is the only member of the Church of Christ to serve as President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_A._Garfield (1506 words)

	Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918) was the wife of James A. Garfield, who served as president of the United States in 1881.
		Garfield, whose maiden name was Lucretia Rudolph, was born in Hiram, Ohio, on April 19, 1832.
		Lucretia was one of his pupils in 1853.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/presidents/html/garfield_lucretia.htm (301 words)

	Presidential Notes: Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
		Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, the wife of President Garfield had the task of nusring him for three months before he died of the wounds his assasin inflicted.
		Lucretia Rudolph was born in 1863 in Hiram, Ohio.
		Soon after Garfield was sworn in, in the spring of 1881, Lucretia became sick again, with malaria and exhaustion.
	ks.essortment.com /lucretiarudolph_rgwm.htm (684 words)

	White House Historical Association > White House Christmas Ornament
		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.
		Garfield, long drives with coachman Albert Hawkins at the reins were a welcome escape and provided a level of privacy rarely found at the White House.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /01/subs/01_b_2005.html (1410 words)

	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		Lucretia Garfield initially opposed her husband's run for the presidency and had even opposed even sitting for a formal photograph for public dissemination.
		Lucretia Garfield was one of the first presidential candidate's wives to appear on a campaign poster, currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Lucretia Garfield wore a purple dress to the Inaugural Ball, which was highlighted by the first display of electricity at such an event.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=21 (2524 words)

	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, wife of James Garfield, 20th president of the United States, died March 14, 1918.
		Garfield was born Lucretia Rudolph on April 19, 1832 in Hiram, Ohio.
		Garfield had been planning to redecorate the White House, but two months after her husband took office, she was afflicted with malaria.
	www.arrangeonline.com /Obituary/Obituary.asp?obituaryid=60527950 (391 words)

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		Zeb Rudolph, Lucretia's father and a founder of the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, is standing in the center of the photograph wearing a top hat.
		Lucretia was the daughter of Zeb Rudolph, a devoted member of the Disciples of Christ and one of the founders of the institute.
		Garfield served as a lieutenant colonel in the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) during the Civil War, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880.
	dmc.ohiolink.edu /OMP/NewDetails?oid=593904 (509 words)

	Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lucretia Rudolph met "Jim" Garfield before her twentieth birthday but she was 21 before he paid enough attention to begin courting her in 1853.
		Garfield served in the Union Army from 1861 til 1863 and won a significant battle at Middle Creek, Kentucky.
		Garfield had been elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 so it was not surprising that in 1862 Ohioans elected him to the U.S. House although he was still on active military duty and had not campaigned.
	www.lawtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/ladies/bio/20lgs.html (273 words)

	American President
		Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph Garfield was well educated and shared her love of learning with others.
		But Lucretia wanted to do more than just turn it into a comfortable home for her family, she wanted to refurbish the White House in a way that reflected the building's rich history.
		Because her husband's presidency was cut short, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield will be remembered mostly for her loving devotion to her dying husband.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesgarfield/firstlady (787 words)

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		Garfield was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Republican.
		Garfield repeatedly won re-election for 18 years, and became the leading Republican in the House.
		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-cabri.imag.fr /TeleCabri/PassionRecherche/Histoire/Garfield/James_A._Garfield (628 words)

	juvenile Biography of United States First Lady
		Garfield nevertheless appreciated the depth of intellect possessed by "Crete" as she was called.
		Garfield frankly expressed his regrets at their marriage and also pursued a love affair with a New York woman, Lucia Calhoun which he later greatly regretted and confessed to his wife.
		Lucretia Garfield rushed back to Washington to nurse him and take charge of the White House, showing a remarkable calm and courage that won her widespread admiration.
	www.firstladies.org /curriculum/educational-biography.aspx?biography=21 (2579 words)

	Explore DC: Lucretia Garfield
		Lucretia Garfield was a strong willed and intelligent woman whom her future husband James initially found "dull" when her first met her.
		The two dated on and off for nine years before marrying, in part because Lucretia was reluctant to surrender her independence and in part because James mistrusted what he saw as her feminist leanings.
		Lucretia's courage through his ordeal won her the admiration of the country.
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	James Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Garfield at 31 became a brigadier general, 2 years later a major general of volunteers.
		Garfield served in the House from 1863 to 1880.
		Garfield eventually came to see her as the ideal wife and mother of her children.
	histclo.hispeed.com /pres/ind19/garfield.html (2251 words)

	American President
		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.
		Garfield was assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau, an emotionally disturbed man who had failed to gain an appointment in Garfield's administration.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesgarfield (793 words)

	James A. Garfield -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Garfield was the son of Abram Garfield and Eliza Ballou, who continued to run the family's impoverished Ohio farm after her husband's death in 1833.
		Garfield also studied law and was ordained as a minister in the Disciples of Christ church, but he soon turned to politics.
		Garfield tried to put together a cabinet that would appease all factions of the Republican Party, but, prompted by his secretary of state, Blaine, he eventually challenged Conkling's patronage machine in New York.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9036074 (1860 words)

	President James Garfield
		Garfield was the ‘compromise’ chosen by the delegates.
		Lucretia had been convalescing at a seaside resort in New Jersey and returned by train to him, frail, fatigued, and desperate.
		Lucretia returned to the family’s Ohio farm and lived for an additional thirty-six years, active in preserving the records of Jim’s career.
	www.intothewoods.us /HikerMama/Patriots/PresidentGarfield.html (1392 words)

	James A. Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was born near Cleveland, Ohio, on November 19, 1831.
		Garfield was elected from Ohio in 1859 as a Republican.
		James Garfield arrived at the Washington railroad depot where he was ready to depart for New Jersey on July 2, 1881,when he was seriously wounded with two shots.
	www.macarthurschool.org /projects/chee/serrano.html (282 words)

	Lucretia Garfield -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Garfield, James A. 20th president of the United States (March 4–September 19, 1881), who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history.
		Garfield returned to Hiram to teach again at the Eclectic and after one year he was made president.
		Lucretia Coffin was born of Quaker parents in Nantucket, Mass., on Jan. 3, 1793.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9096542 (656 words)

	Lucretia Rudolph Garfield wife of James A. 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.
		She flatly refused to pose for a campaign photograph, and much preferred a literary circle or informal party to a state reception....
		Small, with delicate features, wide cheekbones, brown eyes, fl hair and finely molded features. Lucretia Garfield was both a handsome young woman and a striking older one. Always a thin woman, she maintained a good figure all her life....
	www.politicalquest.org /index.php/cID/80 (118 words)

	James Rudolph Garfield Papers (Library of Congress)
		It reflects Garfield's business concerns as well as his public service as a member of the United States Civil Service Commission, 1902-1903, commissioner of corporations in the Department of Commerce and Labor, 1903-1907, and secretary of the interior, 1907-1909.
		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.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/garfldjr.html (679 words)

	James Garfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Well educated, shy and nervous around strangers, and a faithful member of the Disciple of Christ church, Crete Garfield devoted her life to managing the Garfield home in Cleveland and to raising her children.
		Garfield was bedridden, spending much of her time away from Washington recovering on the New Jersey shore.
		After Garfield's death, she settled in Mentor, Ohio, where she lived comfortably on a $350,000 trust fund raised for her by the millionaire financier and department store magnate, Cyrus W. Field.
	www.historywise.com /KoTrain/Courses/JG/JG_The_First_Lady.htm (216 words)

	LUCRETIA GARFIELD
		Lucretia Rudolph was born in Hiram, Ohio, the daughter of Zebulon and Arabel Rudolph, who were farmers.
		Garfield was also attracted to another woman, so he broke the engagement, and he and Lucretia returned to just being friends.
		Lucretia was able to live well and raise her five children after her husband's death, as she received a five thousand-dollar pension as well as public subscription of three hundred thousand dollars.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1068.html (529 words)

	James A. Garfield -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Garfield had not been closely identified with either the Stalwarts or the Half-Breeds, the two major factions within the Republican Party, but, upon becoming president, he upset the Stalwarts by naming the Half-Breed Blaine secretary of state.
		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.
		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 /ebi/article-9274498 (797 words)

	Rudolph Wurlitzer -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
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		Giuliani, Rudolph W. American lawyer and politician who was mayor of New York City from 1993 to 2002.
		In 1993, U.S. public official Rudolph Giuliani was elected the Republican mayor of a city where registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans five to one.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9382994?tocId=9382994&query=null&ct=null (502 words)

	Lucretia Garfield, First Lady
		Lucretia Rudolph was born in Hiram, Ohio on April 19, 1832.
		James Garfield was away from home due to his work in the Ohio State Senate.
		Since he was gone so much Lucretia thought that he didn't love her.
	www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/FirstLadies/LGarfield.html (130 words)

	Lucretia Garfield
		Lucretia Rudolph Garfield was introduced to her husband James, while both were attending Hiram College in Ohio.
		With the election of her husband to the White House in 1880, Lucretia made plans to return to Washington.
		When President Garfield was shot on July 2, the First Lady was still recuperating in New Jersey.
	www.multied.com /bio/rec/LucretiaGarfield.html (114 words)

	Wildernet - James A. Garfield National Historic Site
		James A. Garfield was President from March 4, 1881 until his death on September 19, 1881.
		Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, a farmer's daughter and former student of Garfield's gained national admiration for her quiet strength while James clung to life.
		James A. Garfield NHS is located at 8095 Mentor Avenue, on the north side of the road.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=US0066&CU_ID=1 (774 words)

	LUCRETIA RUDOLPH GARFIELD - FREE FRANC SIGNED
		Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, who survived her assassinated husband by more than 36 years, always used fl-bordered stationery after his death.
		Garfield was granted free use of the mails by a special act of Congress on December 20, 1881.
		Garfield and the widows of Presidents Tyler and Polk "on the pension roll and pay each of them a pension during their respective natural lives at a rate of $5,000 a year from and after the 19
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2001/presidents/LUCRETIA_RUDOLPH_GARFIELD.htm (328 words)

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