20.+James+Garfield

=__**Biography**__ =


 * Born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in 1831.**
 * He drove canal boat teams to pay for his education. He went to WIlliams College Massachusetts and graduated in 1856. He became a professor at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College), and a year later he became president there. **
 * In 1859 he was elected to the Ohio Senate as a Republican. **

=**Acomplishments //before//** = =**__Presidency__** = = =

At 31 years of age: Brigadier general
2 years after, Major general of volunteers. Same year (1862) he was elected into Congress. He won re-election for 18 years, eventually became leading Republican in the House =__ Presidency __= = =

March 5, 1881
Garfield completes his slate of cabinet members, naming James G. Blaine as secretary of state and Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, as secretary of war. Garfield angers Conkling with his nomination of William Windom of Minnesota, a non-Eastern man, as secretary of treasury. Further, Garfield denies Conkling influence in New York politics by appointing William H. Robertson as collector of the port of New York and Thomas L. James postmaster of New York.

March 22, 1881
Garfield sends his list of nominations to the Senate, which includes New York senator Conkling's contingent. Conkling will continue to be a source of conflict for the President.

September 19, 1881
James Garfield dies from blood poisoning and complications after surgeons search endlessly to find the lost bullet in his back, lodged in his pancreas. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes the twenty-first President of the United States The assassin, Guiteau, will be hanged on June 30, 1882.