Topic: James Garfield

James A. Garfield

Mahalo - 463 days ago
>James Abram Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States . Appointed Supreme Court Justice Thomas Stanley Matthews Political writer Charles J. Guiteau , who believed himself partly responsible for Garfields victory in the 1980 election, insisted that the president award ...

Who is James Garfield?

WiseGeek - 523 days ago
James Garfield was a professor, a school president, studied law, was ordained as a minister, and became our country’s 20th president. In 1857, James Garfield became the school’s president, and supported its name change to Hiram College.Garfield became interested in the recently ...

Stalwart

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 920 days ago
Stalwart, in U.S. history, member of a faction of the Republican Party that opposed the civil-service reform policies of President Rutherford B. Hayes and sought unsuccessfully a third presidential term for Ulysses S. Grant.

Chester A Arthur

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 921 days ago
Elected vice president on the Republican ticket of 1880, Arthur acceded to the presidency upon the assassination of President James A. Garfield. After graduating in 1848 from Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, ...