Friends of James A. Garfield National Historic Site
A partnership between citizens and the James A. Garfield National Historic Site is forming to promote the national park right here in Mentor, Ohio.
James A. Garfield National Historic Site hopes for summer funding
After a dismal visitor count in 2013 due to government budget cuts, a Mentor national Park Service's historic site looks to Washington DC. for a late spring reprieve to fight back from 2013's money woes shutting their doors.
Mentor, Ohio President James A Garfield Historical Site Summer 2015
Pictures set to music of visit to President James A. Garfield Historical Site in Mentor, Ohio and burial tomb in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. On July 2, 1881, at 9:20 a.m., James A. Garfield was shot in the back as he walked with Secretary of State Blaine in Washington's Baltimore and Potomac train station. The proud President was preparing to leave for Williams College—he planned to introduce his two sons to his alma mater. The shots came from a .44 British Bulldog, which the assassin, Charles J. Guiteau, had purchased specifically because he thought it would look impressive in a museum. Garfield's doctors were unable to remove the bullet, which was lodged in the President's pancreas. On September 19, 1881, the President died of blood poisoning and complications from the shooting in his hospital rooms at Elberon, a village on the New Jersey shore, where his wife lay ill with malaria.
Guiteau, age thirty-nine at the time, was known around Washington as an emotionally disturbed man. He had killed Garfield because of the President's refusal to appoint him to a European consulship. In planning this violent act, Guiteau stalked Garfield for weeks. On the day Garfield died, Guiteau wrote to now President Chester A. Arthur, My inspiration is a godsend to you and I presume that you appreciate it. . . . Never think of Garfield's removal as murder. It was an act of God, resulting from a political necessity for which he was responsible. At his trial, the jury deliberated one hour before returning a guilty verdict. Sentenced to be hanged, Guiteau climbed the scaffold on June 30, 1882, convinced that he had done God's work. Murder of a President Documentary link:
New Civil War Biography of James Garfield
A new book on James A Garfield, James Garfield and the Civil War:: For Ohio and the Union (Civil War Series) Paperback was released on November 2, 2015. We caught up with author, Daniel J. Vermilya, to talk about the book.
James A. Garfield National Historic Site | Wikipedia audio article
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James A. Garfield National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Mentor, Ohio. The site preserves the property associated with the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, and includes the first presidential library established in the United States.
Andrew Miszak, executive director of Friends of James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor,
Andrew Miszak, executive director of Friends of James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, talks about his favorite places on site.
By: Betsy Scott - Local government reporter w/a nose for news. I cover the cities of Mentor, Chardon and Kirtland for the Lake County News-Herald.
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The Garfields - A Mentor Family
Mentor was home to 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield. This program focuses on the home and the family that continued to live there long after that time. It features interviews with Garfield's descendants and Mentor's first woman mayor, Eleanor Garfield. Produced in 2002.
The Route 20 Guy: James A Garfield NHP
The Route 20 Guy gives an overview of the James A Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, OH.
James A. Garfield & the First Decoration Day
Our friends from the James A. Garfield National Historic Site offer a timely reminded on the origin of Memorial Day.
The holiday began as Decoration Day, a way to celebrate and commemorate soldiers who perished during the Civil War.
And the keynote speaker during the first national Decoration Day ceremony was Congressman and Union veteran James A. Garfield.
Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard recounts the assassination of America's 20th President James Garfield. The author reports that four months after taking office President Garfield was fired upon twice by Charles Guiteau on July 2, 1881. The President was not killed by the initial attack but severely wounded. Ms. Millard examines the rudimentary medical care that President Garfield received, which included Alexander Graham Bell's attempts to find the bullets lodged in Garfield's body with an induction-balance electrical device. The author also recounts the political maneuverings for control of the government following the assassination and the trial of Charles Guiteau, who claimed an insanity defense. President James Garfield died from infection and an internal hemorrhage from his wounds on September 19, 1881. Candice Millard speaks at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio.
Garfield Park - Mentor, Ohio
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James Garfield's House in Cleveland, Ohio
Pinky Knows Naples is on the road this summer. While in Mentor Ohio, just outside Cleveland Ohio.
I checked out President James A Garfield’s home. He was the first President to greet people on his front porch; thus the term front porch campaign was created. His mansion is quite the home and well worth checking out if you are a history buff.
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Behind the Scenes Tours - James A. Garfield NHS
The first Saturday of every month we offer the ever-popular, Behind the Scenes tour! What's on this tour? Where does it go? Watch volunteer Diane show you just a few of the stops you'll make on the Behind the Scenes tour!
A year ahead of schedule, Rhodes eyes city crown and more
Rhodes reached the Senate League championship game last season in Cleveland and brings back a talented nucleus with sophomore Jamal Sumlin, junior Amarion Dickerson and senior Marlon Landingham.
Crypt of President James A. Garfield in Cleveland Monument
The actual burial crypt of President James A. Garfield and his wife is located in the basement of the President James A. Garfield Monument in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland Ohio.
James Garfield Grave + Home
20th US Presidents Grave and Home. Grave is located in Cleveland, Ohio right next to the Rockefeller family! Home is located in Mentor, Ohio about 20 minutes from Cleveland!
Garfield house
A tour of President James Garfield's home in Mentor Ohio with his living relatives.
Assassination site-ish of President James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield | Wikipedia audio article
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James A. Garfield
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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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, eventually passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
On July 2, 1881, he was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington D.C. by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker. The wound was not immediately fatal for Garfield, but his doctors' uncleaned and unprotected hands are said to have led to infection that caused his death on September 19. Guiteau was convicted of the murder and was executed in June 1882; he tried to name his crime as simple assault by blaming the doctors for Garfield's death. With his term cut short by his death after only 200 days, and much of it spent in ill health trying to recover from the attack, Garfield is little-remembered other than for his assassination. Historians often forgo listing him in rankings of U.S. presidents due to the short length of his presidency.
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