James Garfield was the last president to be born in a log cabin. When James was born in 1831, Ohio was on the edge of the American frontier and had been a state for fewer than 30 years.

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 Garfield: From Radical to Unifier; By C.W. Goodyear; Simon and Schuster; 624 pp., $35.00 The author breaks Garfield’s life into four parts: his childhood in Ohio, the Civil War ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

James Garfield rose from a northern Ohio log cabin to the White House before being assassinated in 1881, his first year in office. He was the second murdered U.S. president, following Lincoln. C.W.

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

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 ...

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 ...

When James Garfield won the Presidency in 1880, Charles Guiteau got ready to accept his new government job. No one had actually offered him a job – but he'd campaigned for Garfield, so he ...

President Joe Biden, one of four presidents born in the 1940s, is already one of the 10 longest-living presidents. He turned 82 in November. John F. Kennedy, at 46, and James Garfield, at 49, are ...

Netflix's upcoming historical drama, Death by Lightning, will tell the tale of the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. Per the streamer, "Death by Lightning is a drama series that ...