See also: Garfield (homonymy)

James Abram Garfield , (November 19th 1831 - September 19th 1881), is the twentieth president of the United States of America. He is elected for a mandate starting from 1881 but is assassinated a few months later.

Biography

James Garfield is born the November 19th 1831 with Orange, Ohio. After its secondary studies it enters to Williams College of Williamston, in the State of the Massachusetts where it is student shining in all the matters except the Chimie. It obtains its diploma at 25 years and begins a career from professor in traditional letters. Ambidexter, one says that it could simultaneously write Latin of a hand and the Greek of the other.

Wearied academic life, Garfield studies right. It is allowed with the bar at 29 years. He then had been elected with the Senate of his State and was a burning member of the Republican party. He was freemason.

Its gifts are not limited to the right but also to mathematics: one owes him a demonstration of the Théorème of Pythagore.

Military career

At the beginning of the American Civil War, J. Garfield engages in the army of the Union. It takes the command of a regiment of Infanterie and is seen assigning the mission of expelling the confederated forces of the part is Kentucky. It is victorious with the Bataille of Jenny' S Creek the January 6th 1862 what is worth a certain celebrity to him. It takes part then in other battles and finishes the war with the row of general major .

Political career

It returns to the policy in 1862 and is elected appointed with the Room of the Representatives, sits that it preserves during 14 years. For this period, that of the reunification with the States of the South, it behaves in falcon while trying to beat or weaken these States. He is then elected senator.

In 1880, it is 49 years old, the Republican party chooses it as candidate because the three principal applicants do not manage to collect a majority. Thus instead of sitting at the Senate it is found elected on November 2nd with a very narrow majority, less than 2000 votes.

Presidency

1881

March 4th: nomination of James Garfield as twentieth President of the United States of America.

July 2nd: A partisan of C. Arthur, disappointed not to have been selected as Consul in Paris, draws several balls in the back to him of which one that the doctors could not extract.

September 19th: Garfield dies after a disease perhaps caused by an infection following the attempt at extraction of the ball. Its assassin, Charles Guiteau, are condemned to died and are hung on June 30th of the following year.

The mandate of J. Garfield is one of shortest of the history of the United States, 6 months and 15 days.

Foreign politics

Garfield tries to organize an International Conference of the States of America but its untimely death prevented the behavior of it.

Interior policy

Garfield tries to alleviate the conflicts within the Republican party and continues the work undertaken by its predecessor, Rutherford B. Beam. The vice-president, Chester A. Arthur, is, him, an inflexible partisan of a firm attitude with respect to the States of the South and their setting under supervision.

Anecdotes

In 1876 J. Garfield finds a demonstration of the Théorème of Pythagore.
James Abram Garfield is also the ascending direct one of Richard Garfield, creator of the card deck to collect Magic: the assembly.

Simple: James A. Garfield

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