James Garfield was a Union Army ... support at the 1880 nominating convention. Garfield narrowly won election and was inaugurated president in early March 1881. By May, first lady Lucretia ...

The Last of the "Log Cabin Presidents" 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 ...

Rutherford B. Hayes declined to run again, so the Republicans turned to James Garfield, who was attractive, eloquent, and untainted by scandals. Although Garfield followed tradition by not campaigning ...

so Garfield worked to nominate James Blaine to combat the machine politics of the Stalwarts. But when Garfield delivered his speech to the Republican Convention to back Blaine, the crowd chanted ...