page_title: Harry Augustus Garfield
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Augustus Garfield / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: The American Political Science Association headquarters, Pi Sigma Alpha headquarters, and Phi Beta Delta Society Executive Office located at 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington The Richardsonian Romanesque building (originally two separate residences, 1527 and 1529, until the 1940s) was designed by noted architect Thomas Franklin Schneider in 1889. It's a contributing property to the Dupont Circle Historic District and valued at $7,075,800. Notable owners of the building (including those who occupied 1529) have included Benjamin West Blanchard (Colonel, General Traffic Manager of the Erie Railroad), government of Argentina (legation), Chenoweth Boarding School for Young Ladies (finishing school), George C. Remey (Mason Remey lived there as well), Samuel Gompers, Carter Glass, government of Ecuador (legation), government of Britain (office of the air attaché), American War Mothers (national headquarters), Harry Augustus Garfield, and the Association of Research Libraries (headquarters).
context_page_description: Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield was an American lawyer, academic and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I.
context_section_description: Garfield was the son of President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield, and the brother and law partner of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield.  At the age of 17 he and his 15-year-old brother James watched in horror as their father was shot down by assassin Charles Guiteau.
  After graduating from Williams College in 1885, he went on to study law at Columbia Law School, spending his second year reading law at All Soul's College in Oxford and the Inns Court in London. He taught Roman history and Latin for a year in St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and from 1888 to 1903 practiced law in Cleveland. He was professor of contracts in the law school of Western Reserve University from 1891 to 1897, and in 1896 helped to organize the municipal association of Cleveland, where he also served as president of the Chamber of Commerce from 1908 to 1909. He was professor of politics at Princeton University from 1903 to 1908. While at Princeton, he befriended future president Woodrow Wilson. In 1908, Garfield became a law professor and eighth president of his alma mater, Williams College in Massachusetts.  He was president of the American Political Science Association from 1921 to 1922.
  He was a hereditary companion of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by right of his father's service as a major general in Union Army during the American Civil War.
caption: Former residence of Harry Augustus Garfield
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