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 ...

James and Lucretia Garfield had seven children ... Again, her diary offers insight: "I don't believe I will ever in my life love a man as I do Mr. Brown […] And it isn't infatuation, for ...