James A Garfield was the 20th president of the United States. He was president 200 days in 1881. He was born in Moreland, Ohio. His father died while he was an infant, and James was often teased by his peers for this. He ran away from home, but had to return because he got sick. His mother convinced him to go to school. James graduated from Williams College as a salutatorian, as well as Hiram College, where he later became College President. In 1861, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army. He rose through the ranks and became brigadier general, and commanded a brigade during the Battle of Shiloh. While the war was going on, he won a seat in the Senate and continued to stay there for 9 terms. Garfield is most remembered
Jesse Woodson James was viewed in two ways; a modern Robin Hood and a killer. He was born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847. Some people say it was the cruel treatment from Union soldiers that turned Frank and Jesse to a life of crime during the Civil War. During the Civil War, at age 15, he joined Quantrill's Raiders, a group of pro-Confederate guerillas. He was part of the Centralia massacre in 1864. He is also known to have been a spy for the rebel army.
The lithograph printed by the Currier and Ives publishing company in 1880 called, “Farmer Garfield: Cutting a Swath to the White House depicts an aspect of the presidential campaign between James Adam Garfield and Winfield Scott Hancock. (LoC) In the center of the lithograph is James A. Garfield taking up most of the length of the poster holding a sheathe that has the words “Honesty, Ability, and Patriotism” inscribed into it and it looks as if he is using it to cut away a garden of snakes that are in the bottom right corner. Behind Garfield, to the left is a continuous wheat field and then to the right sits the White House. The poster demonstrates a multitude of various elements that play into the overall composition and design of the work such as representation, use of symbols, text and image, and the details used.
James Monroe was born on April 28,1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, at this time Virginia was a British colony. He was the oldest son of five children, one sister and three brothers. They were the children of Elizabeth Jones Monroe and Spence Monroe. Spence Monroe was a farmer and a carpenter. When James was eleven he started to attend Campbelltown Academy. In 1774 when James Monroe was sixteen Spence Monroe died and James was left to manage the family property. James Monroe attended the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg the July after his father died.
A. Garfield. Garfield was our twentieth President of the U.S. He was also the second to be assassinated while still in his term. He was killed by Charles Guiteau, a crazy person seeking office, on July 2nd, 1881. Since he had such a short term as President because of his death many people do not understand the true influence Garfield had on people in his life.
The Gilded age spanned from the 1870s to about 1900. Six presidents were elected during that time period. Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison. Ulysses S. Grant was the first of the presidents elected during the Gilded Age, he was elected in 1869 and his presidency spanned to 1877. On September 24, 1869 the “Black Friday” panic happens in New York City when two gold entrepreneurs and Grant’s brother-in-law try to take control of the gold market. Grant finally orders a large sale of god ruining their plans to take over the market, but it effected the market greatly, stocks crashed, brokerages went bankrupt, and prices for agricultural good dropped severely. He received a lot of criticism for that and many people were strongly affected by this.
James Garfield was born on November 19, 1831, in Orange, Ohio, in a log cabin. His father died only two years after his birth, so his mother raised him along with his older siblings while still managing the family farm. During his teen years, he towed barges up the Ohio Canal in order to support his impoverished family. He was nicknamed “The Canal Boy”. He later attended the former Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, which is now currently Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, from 1851 to 1853. He then proved himself to be a skilled public speaker and an excellent student at Williams College. He attended Williams College for two years before graduating in 1856.
The second section of Assassination Vacation, is dedicated to the assassination of President Garfield. Garfield’s death was quite different from Lincoln’s, after his July second shooting Garfield lived for two and a half months before blood poisoning killed him on September 19th. During this time, Garfield remained in a vegetative state, but to the public it was a popular subject. Citizens constantly checked newspapers for updates about the president’s condition, which Vowell compares to that of modern day societies reaction to the NBA Finals or the Academy Awards ceremony.
Born in 1751, Madison was brought up in Orange County, Virginia, and attended Princeton (use to be called the College of New Jersey). Growing up madison was frail and sickly but loved his studies and reading, so much so that he would read the point of risking his health. A student of history and government, well-read in law, he participated in the framing of the Virginia Constitution in 1776, served in the Continental Congress, and was a leader in the Virginia Assembly. James Madison was a very important and famous political leader in the early 1800’s. Although, he may not be as well known as George Washington or Benjamin Franklin, his
Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808 to the Revolutionary War soldier Samuel Davis, in Christian County, Kentucky (only 100 miles from where Abraham Lincoln was born eight months later). Although born in Kentucky, Davis was raised in Mississippi where he lived with his older brother. With the help of his brother Davis was able to gain an education at the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory in Washington Country, Kentucky. Three years later Davis returned to study at in 1818 Davis returned to Mississippi, studying at Jefferson College at Washington. In 1821, he returned to Kentucky, where he studied at Transylvania University in Lexington. Davis' brother made arrangements to allow Davis to attend the United States Military Academy
Later, he wanted to become a lawyer so he studied law on his own and passed the Ohio bar exam. However, he decided to begin a political career, and won the election to be an Ohio Senate member of the Republican Party. In 1861, Garfield joined the Union army and before he resigned, he was a major general. He took part in the Battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga. He was elected by Ohio voters, while still in the military and had to resign to be in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863-80). He served nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives before he was elected President of the United States in 1880. Garfield won 399 votes giving him the Republican nomination. Garfield beat Hancock by 7,368 votes and it was one of the closest
Jesse James was born on September 5th, 1847, in Kearney Missouri. His parents, Zerelda and Robert James, were hemp farmers who owned six slaves. In 1963 Frank’s activities with the Confederates brought the wrath of Union minutemen to the James family farm. Jesse was beaten, and his step-father was tortured for information. This is said the be what started Jesse’s brutal treatment of people, and his “don’t care” attitude. After this Jesse felt the need to fight back, so in the spring of 1864, he joined the Confederate Guerrilla group. This was lead by the man “Bloody Bill” Anderson. This group terrorized pro-Union people all up the Missouri countryside. Jesse was involved in many atrocities. One of which being the Centralia Massacre, where twenty unarmed soldiers were forced off of the train, and then got executed. Then over 100 other soldiers were slaughtered while trying to hunt them down. Then the Guerrillas mangled many of their victims. All of these experiences led up the man Jesse would end up being.
James A. Garfield was the 20th President of the United States. He was born November 19, 1831, in a log cabin at Orange Township, Ohio (known today as Moreland Hills, Ohio). He died September 19, 1881, in Elberon, New Jersey (Summers, 2017, 1). His Father was Abram Garfield and his Mother was Eliza Ballou Garfield. His father died when he was two and he was left helping his widowed mother work her farm outside Ohio. James didn't want to be a farmer. Instead he dreamed of being a sailor so he ran away at sixteen to work on canal boats. However, he became extremely ill from accidentally falling into the water so many times that he had to return home. During this period in his life he realized that he needed to use his brain and intelligence
James Garfield is one of the lesser known presidents of the 45 that have successfully been inaugurated. Yet, he is significant along with three presidents: Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. They were all assassinated while in office. This list doesn’t include Theodore Roosevelt because he survived the attempted assassination and was out of office by then. James Garfield was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, but the bullet didn’t kill him. The lack of medical support given to Garfield after the accident is what led to his death on September 19th, 1881, in Elberon NJ,
father died in 1833, when Garfield was only two years old and so his mother
James A. Garfield was an outstanding man of many endeavors who went from driving boats down the canal to become a general of the union army to the twentieth president of the United States of America (The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans). James A. Garfield was against slavery and had great plans for reconstruction, but sadly they were cut short. His term only lasted in the first year, as Garfield was shot by an office seeker and died many months later (The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans).