A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends aired for seven seasons from 1988 to 1994 ; this adaption also starred Music as the voice of Garfield, one of the very last times Lorenzo Music would voice the character was in Garfield's Phone Messages from the Official Garfield site before his death.

Gags in the strips commonly deal with Garfield's obesity ( in one strip, Jon jokes, " I wouldn't say Garfield is fat, but the last time he got on a Ferris wheel, the two guys on top starved to death "), and his hatred of any form of exertion or work.

However, in the show's last season, the second half-hour of the show featured either an episode from the previous season or one of Garfield's TV specials.

Throughout Garfield's extended Congressional service after the Civil War, he fervently opposed the Greenback, and gained a reputation as a skilled orator.

In the 1864 Congressional election, Garfield's district base weakened due to his refusal to support Lincoln's re-election, but was reinvigorated when he reminded his constituents of his traditional disdain of partisanship ; he was then nominated by acclamation and his re-election was assured.

In the lame duck session, with Garfield's support but mixed reaction, Congress passed a compromise measure providing for specie payment, to take effect in 1879.

In 2007, the CGI movie Garfield Gets Real was released, followed by Garfield's Fun Fest in 2008, and Garfield's Pet Force in 2009.

In the December 1997 issue of Dragon Magazine, in an article on Garfield's trading card game patent application, it was reported that Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U. S. President James A. Garfield ( 1831 – 81 ), and that his great-uncle invented the paper clip.

She was one of Garfield's more influential teachers and remained close friends with him until her death.

Three years after the Institute attained collegiate rank and became known as Hiram College, Burke A. Hinsdale, who had been a student of Garfield's, was appointed president.

Garfield's first romantic interest was Mary Hubbell in 1851, but it lasted only a year, with no formal engagement.

Garfield's signature effort in the state legislature was a bill providing for the state's first geological survey to measure its mineral resources.

The march was uneventful until Union forces reached Paintsville, Kentucky, on January 6, 1862, where Garfield's cavalry engaged the Confederates at Jenny's Creek.

Garfield's philosophy of war in 1862 — to aggressively carry the war to Southern civilians — was not then shared by the Union leadership.

Garfield's detractors later claimed his concept was flawed.

Garfield's hunch was correct ; his ride became legendary, while Rosecrans ' error reinforced critical opinions about his leadership.

Salmon P. Chase was Garfield's ally until Johnson's impeachment trial.

Another inconsistency in Garfield's laissez-faire philosophy was his position on free trade – he favored the tariff, out of political necessity – when it served to protect his district's products.

This was, despite many years of practicing law, Garfield's first court appearance.

Despite the allure of a newly lucrative law practice, there was little hesitancy on Garfield's part in deciding to stand for re-election in 1866, due primarily to the urgency presented by Reconstruction.

As much as anyone, Harmon Austin, a local man of influence, was indispensable to Garfield's success, keeping a finger on the political pulse of the district.

Garfield's competition for re-election to a fourth term was weaker than two years prior.

At the outset, Garfield's relationship with the newly inaugurated President was cool on both sides ; Grant refused a requested post office appointment which Garfield recommended ; Garfield, out of loyalty to his army commander, still harbored some resentment for Grant's dismissal of Rosecrans.

Another pet project of Garfield's this term was a bill to transfer Indian Affairs from the Interior Department to the War Department.

Garfield's outlook for the Republican Party, and the Democrats as well, was very negative at this point.

Years later, in 1880, correspondence was uncovered indicating that Garfield's influence had been sought in the matter and obtained.

Garfield's predecessors, Grant and Hayes, had both advocated civil service reform.

In 1880, Garfield's predecessor, President Hayes, stopped the implementation of any new " star route " contracts in a reform effort.

Garfield's Republican Party managed to gain an outright majority of seats from the opposition Democratic Party.

Garfield's report, along with others, created enough doubt to change the election results in that state, as well as in Florida, South Carolina, and Oregon ; these states then were saddled with two conflicting slates of electoral votes, which under the Constitution made Congress the final arbiter of the election.

Thomas Nichol, Wharton Barker, and Benjamin Harrison were widely considered to be the primary architects of Garfield's ascendancy during the convention, but no one could have controlled this unpredictable outcome for such a dark horse — one who had personally objected at every step.

Nine countries had accepted ; however, these invitations were withdrawn in April 1882 when Congress and President Arthur, Garfield's successor, cancelled the conference.

Croly credits him with persuading the two men, who were Stalwarts hostile to Garfield's Half-Breed wing of the party, to visit Garfield in Mentor.

The speech was delivered at most twice ( and copies were passed out to members of the Republican National Committee at their summer 1880 meeting in New York ), but Guiteau believed himself to be largely responsible for Garfield's victory.

Simultaneously, although no one questioned his medical competence, Garfield's deficiencies as an executive were becoming apparent as the organization expanded far beyond his ability to manage it properly.

Among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.

" There were many other puppet characters such as Romberg Rabbit, Macintosh Mouse, Chris Goose ( Garfield's nephew who was born on Christmas, hence " Christmas Goose ") and a sleepy bloodhound called Beauregard Burnside III ( whose name happened to be a mix of two American Civil War generals ).

Garfield's reviews were uniformly bad, and Diaz proved to be the only period role he played in his career.

Clarifications were made to the rulebook, and Richard Garfield's short fiction " Worzel's Tale " was removed to make room.

Garfield's earliest settlers were predominantly blue-collar Irish laborers and their families, who worked in the mills and foundries down along the Allegheny River, shopped in local stores on Penn Avenue, and built and lived in modest brick foursquare homes on the streets running up from Penn Avenue.

This change has essentially affected Garfield's design ; who underwent a " Darwinian evolution " in which he began walking on his hind legs, " slimmed down ", and " stopped looking [...] through squinty little eyes ".

Many of the gags focus on Garfield's obsessive eating and obesity ; his hate of Mondays, diets, and any form of exertion ; his constant shedding ( which constantly annoys Jon ); and his abuse of Odie and Jon as well as his obsession with mailing Nermal to Abu Dhabi.

Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments ; energizing U. S. naval power ; and purging corruption in the Post Office Department.

The two became close, and covered all topics, especially religion ; Rosecrans, who with his brother had converted from Methodism to Catholicism, succeeded in softening Garfield's view of Catholicism.

The election of 1878 brought no significant opposition to Garfield's seat in the House, though two potential obstacles existed: the Greenback Party put up a candidate, Judge Tuttle ; and the district had been re-shuffled by the Democrats in an attempt to weaken the Republicans ' hold.

Once the Republicans captured the legislature, Garfield's victory was never in doubt ; he was elected to the Senate by acclamation.

Garfield's concern over education was not exaggerated ; there was a 70 % illiteracy rate among southern blacks.

During President Garfield's limited tenure, he appointed several ambassadors, notably James R. Lowell as U. S. minister to England ; and the famous author of Ben-Hur and former Union Civil War general, Lew Wallace, as U. S. minister to Turkey.

" Garfield's apprenticeship was officially over ; he was voted full membership by the company.

Edgerton was a replacement for Senator William Windom, who became Secretary of the Treasury under President James A. Garfield ; Windom left the cabinet after Garfield's brief presidency and then was re-elected to serve out the remainder of his own term.

Her ancestry includes German, Welsh, English and Irish ; Lucretia Garfield's parental great-grandfather immigrated to Pennsylvania ( in a part that is now Delaware ) from Württemberg, Germany.

Dr. Gallaudet has been for thirty years chairman of the executive committee of the convention of American institutes of the deaf ; was one of the founders and has been president of the Cosmos Club ; was Garfield's successor as president of the Literary Society of Washington ; is an active member of the American Social Science Association, and has been chairman of the department of education: is a member of the Philosophical and Anthropological societies of Washington, and of the American Historical Society and the Huguenot Society, and is president of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

By virtue of being a native Ohioan, he was commissioned to sculpt two statues of the recently assassinated President Garfield ; one for Cincinnati ( Garfield's home city ), and the other, in another pose, for the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol.