Download or read book The Life of James A Garfield Republican Candidate for the Presidency written by James Roberts Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Work of James A Garfield written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Work of James A Garfield Twentieth President of the United States written by John Clark Ridpath and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book The Life and Work of James A Garfield Twentieth President of the United States written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Work of James A Garfield written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Garfield written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading "I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." - James Garfield He was the only sitting member of the House of Representatives elected President to date, but he served only about half a year in the office. He was the second president in less than 20 years felled by an assassin's bullet. Yet James A. Garfield, a man little known outside his own party before his "dark-horse" nomination by the Republican Party in 1880, was significant in a number of ways. Garfield's short term marked the first entrance of a "reformist" strain into the presidency that sought to root out corruption and political favoritism in government. Much of what we know as the modern federal bureaucracy has its roots in Garfield's advocacy of a professional civil service to fill most positions in the government, rather than filling those positions through political patronage, the "spoils system" that went back to the administration of Andrew Jackson. He did not live to see his proposed reforms enshrined in law, but Garfield's contribution to the history of the United States should not be underestimated. In 1880, Garfield ran as a Republican for president, and one of his supporters was a man named Charles Guiteau, who wrote and circulated a speech called "Garfield vs. Hancock" that aimed to rally support for the Republican candidate. Though few knew it, Guiteau's family had already deemed him insane and attempted to keep him committed in an asylum, only to have him manage an escape from confinement. Garfield went on to narrowly edge Winfield Scott Hancock in the election, and Guiteau, harboring delusions of grandeur, believed he had helped tip the scales in Garfield's favor. As such, he believed that he was entitled to a post in Garfield's nascent administration, perhaps even an ambassadorship, and he continued to rack up debts while operating under the assumption that he would soon have the government salary to pay them back. However, despite lobbying around Republican headquarters in New York City and even approaching Cabinet members, no post was forthcoming for the troubled man. Eventually, in May 1881, Secretary of State James Blaine told him to never show up again. Enraged by the perceived slight, Guiteau bought a revolver and plotted to kill the president. He got his chance on July 2, 1881 at a railroad station, shooting Garfield in the back twice and bragging to the authorities, "I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts...Arthur is president now!" Garfield would live for nearly three more months, and the poor standards of medical care in the 1880s would end up being responsible for the fact he did not survive wounds that he would've survived at the end of the 19th century. Indeed, Guiteau would cite medical malpractice at trial, stating, "I deny the killing, if your honor please. We admit the shooting." Those kinds of statements and his generally odd behavior helped ensure Guiteau's lawyers would claim he was insane, one of the first high profile attempts to use that as a defense against a crime. However, that never had much chance of succeeding, and claims of insanity were heartily rejected by prosecutors. Garfield was the second president to be assassinated after Abraham Lincoln, and today he is often remembered as one of the presidents to die in office after being elected every 20 years starting with William Henry Harrison's 1840 election through John F. Kennedy's 1960 election. James Garfield: The Life and Legacy of the Second President to Be Assassinated chronicles the life and death of the president. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about Garfield like never before.
Download or read book The Assassination of James A Garfield written by Robert Kingsbury and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines one of America's lesser-known presidents, his assassination, and the life of Charles Guiteau, who killed him.
Download or read book James A Garfield written by Robin Santos Doak and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of James A. Garfield, the twentieth president of United States. Discusses his personal life, education, and military and political career.
Download or read book James A Garfield written by Ira Rutkow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics—only to be felled by an assassin's bullet and to die at the hands of his doctors James A. Garfield was one of the Republican Party's leading lights in the years following the Civil War. Born in a log cabin, he rose to become a college president, Union Army general, and congressman—all by the age of thirty-two. Embodying the strive-and-succeed spirit that captured the imagination of Americans in his time, he was elected president in 1880. It is no surprise that one of his biographers was Horatio Alger. Garfield's term in office, however, was cut tragically short. Just four months into his presidency, a would-be assassin approached Garfield at the Washington, D.C., railroad station and fired a single shot into his back. Garfield's bad luck was to have his fate placed in the care of arrogant physicians who did not accept the new theory of antisepsis. Probing the wound with unwashed and occasionally manure-laden hands, Garfield's doctors introduced terrible infections and brought about his death two months later. Ira Rutkow, a surgeon and historian, offers an insightful portrait of Garfield and an unsparing narrative of the medical crisis that defined and destroyed his presidency. For all his youthful ambition, the only mark Garfield would make on the office would be one of wasted promise.
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of James A Garfield Twentieth President of the United States written by Frank Holcomb Mason and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James A Garfield written by Megan M. Gunderson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography introduces readers to James A. Garfield, including his early political career and key events from Garfield's administration including his surprise nomination, the Star Route Scandal, and his assassination by Charles Guiteau. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Life and Work of James A Garfield written by John Clark Ridpath and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The Life and Public Service of James A Garfield written by Frank Holcomb Mason and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of James A Garfield written by E. E. Brown and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield" by E. E. Brown. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of James A Garfield written by Emma Elizabeth Brown and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of James A Garfield Twentieth President of the United States A Biographical Sketch written by Frank Holcomb Mason and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Dark Horse written by Kenneth D. Ackerman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at post-Civil War American politics describes the narrow election of President James A. Garfield, his murder by assassin Charles Guiteau, and the machinations of the political power-brokers of the era. Reprint.
