Presidency of James A. Garfield | Wikipedia audio article
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Presidency of James A. Garfield


00:03:51 1 Childhood and early life
00:06:30 2 Education, marriage and early career
00:11:21 3 Civil War
00:12:55 3.1 Buell's command
00:16:34 3.2 Chief of staff for Rosecrans
00:19:24 4 Congressional career
00:19:33 4.1 Election in 1862; Civil War years
00:24:56 4.2 Reconstruction
00:28:04 4.3 Tariffs and finance
00:30:31 4.4 Crédit Mobilier scandal; Salary Grab
00:35:09 4.5 Minority leader; Hayes administration
00:39:25 4.6 Legal career and other activities
00:41:30 5 Presidential election of 1880
00:41:40 5.1 Republican nomination
00:44:24 5.2 Campaign against Hancock
00:46:30 6 Presidency, 1881
00:46:40 6.1 Cabinet and inauguration
00:49:57 6.2 Reforms
00:51:48 6.3 Civil rights and education
00:53:25 6.4 Foreign policy and naval reform
00:55:38 6.5 Administration and cabinet
00:55:48 7 Assassination
00:55:57 7.1 Guiteau and shooting
00:59:43 7.2 Treatment and death
01:06:15 8 Funeral, memorials and commemorations
01:09:32 9 Legacy and historical view
01:13:06 10 See also



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James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881)  was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death by assassination six and a half months later. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the Senate seat once elected president. He was the first sitting member of Congress to be elected to the presidency, and remains the only sitting House member to gain the White House.Garfield was raised by his widowed mother in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm. He worked at various jobs, including on a canal boat, in his youth.  Beginning at age 17, he attended several Ohio schools, then studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating in 1856. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and served as a member of the Ohio State Senate (1859–1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga. He was first elected to Congress in 1862 to represent Ohio's 19th District. Throughout Garfield's extended congressional service after the Civil War, he firmly supported the gold standard and gained a reputation as a skilled orator. Garfield initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, but later favored a moderate approach for civil rights enforcement for freedmen.
At the 1880 Republican National Convention, Senator-elect Garfield attended as campaign manager for Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, and gave the presidential nomination speech for him.  When neither Sherman nor his rivals – Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine – could get enough votes to secure the nomination, delegates chose Garfield as a compromise on the 36th ballot. In the 1880 presidential election, Garfield conducted a low-key front porch campaign, and narrowly defeated Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock.
Garfield's accomplishments as president included a resurgence of presidential authority against senatorial courtesy in executive appointments, energizing American naval power, and purging corruption in the Post Office, all during his extremely short time in office. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judicial appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. He enhanced the powers of the presidency when he defied the powerful New York senator Roscoe Conkling by appointing William H. Robertson to the lucrative post of Collector of the Port of New York, starting a fracas that ended with Robertson's confirmation and Conkling's resignation from the Senate. Garfield advocated agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African Americans. He also proposed substantial civil service reform, e ...