James Abram Garfield was also a born-again Christian, saved at age 18, and was an elder in his church when elected president. He said, before leaving for Washington: ...

President James A. Garfield was not from Cincinnati. He was from Ohio, though – born in the former Orange Township in Cuyahoga County in 1831. Yet, he has a statue in Piatt Park (formerly ...

I cannot watch a national convention without thinking about our 20 th president, James Abram Garfield, who took the stage at the Republican National Convention of 1880 to introduce and endorse ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Born Moreland Hills, Ohio James Garfield was elected president in 1880, at a time of extreme political partisanship. Eleven days after the Republican nominated his cabinet, political cartoonist Joseph ...

James Garfield, an Ohio House representative at the time, attends to give a speech in support of a presidential candidate that's against the spoils system. But then something unexpected happens ...