James A. Garfield

anything he wanted

James Garfield won the 1880 presidential election defeating Winfield Hancock.In the presidential election James Garfield received 214 electoral votes (58%) and Winfield Hancock received 155 electoral votes (42%). The popular vote totals were Garfield 4,446,158 (48.27%) and Hancock 4,444,260 (48.25%).

March 4 - Sept 19, 1881. He was 49 yrs old when he died, 79 days after having been shot by assassin Charles Guiteau in the DC train station.

James a. Garfield never managed to have a memorable term. well, no i take that back. He had a memorable term only because he served his term during the gilded age. but he also led a successful brigade at middle creek, Kentucky. and he decided if mail routes were being fraudulently awarded with tax money.

James K. Polk was about 36 years older than James Garfield. President Polk died in 1849 at the age of 53, and President Garfield died in 1881 at the age of 49.

He was born November 19, 1831. He will be 183 in November of 2014.

Eliza Ballou ( September 21, 1801 - January 21, 1888 ) was the mother of James Garfield.

Medical science was not enough advanced in 1880 . The doctors did not have scanners to help locate bullets in the wound. They did not know how to prevent infections and they did not have anti-biotics available for treatment of infection.

he was elected

no he was republican

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Bond; James Bond, by far...

He wasn't bad, he just didn't get to accomplish much as president due to his unfortunately short tenure. He died of gunshot wounds only six months into office.

Garfield was president for a very short time. There were no major wars going on .

The Russians had just taken over Turkmenistan ending fighting there. Sitting Bull was about to give up his war with the US. The First Boer War ended in South Africa.

He liked golf and billards

james a. garfield fought in the battle of Middle Creek

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James Garfield was the 20th president of the United States of America.

James A. Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881 in Washington D.C. while walking through the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station. He had been president just shy of 4 months at the time, and his term lasted 6 1/2 months. Reportedly, the assassination was done because Guiteau was mentally ill and was upset that he had been repeatedly rejected to be the American consul in Paris.

Garfield was shot twice by Guiteau on July 2nd. He died on Sept 19th in Long Branch NJ. He would probably have survived his wounds if not for the medical practices of the day, which included the repeated "probing" of the path of the gunshot by doctors who did not yet know of the threat of infection via their unprotected hands. Guiteau believed in the current practice of patronage or the spoils system and that by elevating Chester A. Arthur to the presidency, he would insure that system continued. thank people.

Garfield was assassinated because his assassin, Charles Guiteau, was not appointed to a diplomatic post that he felt he deserved. His personal requests to Garfield and to cabinet members were continually rejected and eventually he was told to stop coming back.

Nothing that I can think of. There is no direct connection in their common names.

He liked to hunt and fish and play billiards.

According to the book "Garfield: A Biography" by Allan Peskin, James Garfield's siblings were named:

Mehitabel, b. 1821

Thomas, b. 1822

Mary, b. 1824

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James Garfield's nickname for Lucretia Garfield was "Lucy."

I have come across no evidence that Garfield had anything to do with the establishment of Howard University, a college founded by the First Congregationalist Society of Washington (D.C) as a theological school for African Americans in 1867. Though Garfield was serving his third term (of nine total) as a congressman from Ohio at this time, his strong religious affiliation was with the Christian Church or "Disciples of Christ" which had its foundings as a religious movement by Alexander Campbell. Garfield had preached among the Christian Churches. His college connections were with Hiram College (known at the time of his attending as Western Reserve Eclectic Institute) where he attended 1851-54, and Williams College (Massachusettes) from which he graduated in 1856. Garfield taught languages, and later served as the principle of Hiram College, an institution affiliated with the Christian Churches. It is probably his association with Hiram that has given rise to the urban myth of his establishment of Howard as far as I can tell.