The plight of African-American civil rights weighed heavily on Garfield's presidency.

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.

Garfield's election to the presidency brought a cheerful family to the White House in 1881.

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

Garfield rejected Communism, and just prior to his death, in hopes of redeeming himself in the eyes of the blacklisters, wrote that he had been duped by Communist ideology, in an unpublished article " I Was a Sucker for a Left Hook ", a reference to Garfield's movies about boxing.

President Chester Arthur, sworn in only thirty days before, following James Garfield's death, made his first public speech as president.

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

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.

On the eve of the election the Democrats widely published a letter — allegedly over Garfield's signature — which favored Chinese immigration, in an attempt to affect the outcome of the election.

At John Garfield's suggestion of opening a servicemen's club in Hollywood, Davis — with the aid of Warner, Cary Grant and Jule Styne — transformed an old nightclub into the Hollywood Canteen, which opened on October 3, 1942.

The studio quickly revised Garfield's contract — designating him a star player rather than a featured one — for seven years without options.

Released on June 11, 2004, the movie followed Garfield's quest to save the newly adopted Odie from a TV pet-show host.

Another approach, known as " Silent Garfield ", involves removing Garfield's thought balloons from the strips.

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.

On some occasions, however, he is depicted more intelligently, as one strip, in which he holds a heavy rock to prevent Garfield from doing this, and actually hurts Garfield's foot.

Although he left Hiram in 1861 to take up the Civil War command of Company A of the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment recruited from Hiram, Garfield's name appeared in the Institute's catalogs until 1863.

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.

Thus, Garfield's very close friend distinctly became a political adversary, though he persevered with the economic and financial views he had earlier learned from Chase.

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 Secretary of State James G. Blaine had to contend with Chinese immigration, fishing disputes with Britain, and obtaining U. S. recognition from Korea.

Meanwhile, he meets Carol Gerber, Bobby Garfield's friend and childhood sweetheart from Low Men in Yellow Coats.

The Garfield Tea House, constructed from railroad ties that had been laid to carry Garfield's train, is in Elberon.

In 1884, Hanna sought election as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in support of the presidential bid of Senator Sherman ( as he was by then )— President Chester A. Arthur, Garfield's successor, was seeking re-nomination, but was opposed by a number of other Republicans Hanna supported Sherman as the candidate favored the gold standard and worked to solve the problems of business, and because he was from Ohio.

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.

While Keene and Trefethen struggled to fix the damage from Kaiser's micromanagement and Garfield's ineffectual management, Henry Kaiser moved to Oahu in 1956 and then insisted on expanding Kaiser Permanente into Hawaii in 1958.

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.

* Penelope ( Voiced by Victoria Jackson ): Penelope is Garfield's girlfriend who takes the place of his love interest Arlene from the comics.

* Brick: Brick ( or Bonzo from the second season ) is the ex-boyfriend to most of Garfield's love interests.

The sequel makes a complete break from Death Wish and Death Sentence, Brian Garfield's novel series, and redefines the Paul Kersey character.

He was originally a pet to Jon Arbuckle's roommate Lyman, but Lyman disappeared from the series after about five years ( with the exception of a one-panel cameo appearance in the strip for Garfield's 10th birthday ).

As Garfield's first follow-up to his popular Magic: The Gathering collectible card game, he was eager to prove that the genre was " a form of game as potentially diverse as board games " In 1995 the game was renamed from Jyhad to Vampire: The Eternal Struggle to increase its appeal and distance itself from the Islamic term Jihad

Lack of success from the Louisville expansion, high crew costs and several accidents put Garfield's company into bankruptcy.

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

Garfield's single executive order was to provide government workers the day off on May 30, 1881, in order to decorate the graves of those who died in the Civil War.

In mid-May 1881, Garfield's wife Lucretia suddenly contracted malaria and possibly spinal meningitis.

In 1881, he wrote President James A. Garfield's biography, but filled the work with contrived conversations and boyish excitements rather than facts.

The second theory holds that after Garfield's death in 1881, a new train station was named in his honor, which in turn led to the surrounding area becoming associated with his name as well.

The article " El ajusticiamiento de Guiteau ," an account of President Garfield's murderer's trial, was published in La Opinion Liberal in 1881, and later selected for inclusion in The Library of America's anthology of American True Crime writing.

He declined offers to run for public office until 1881 ( including a spot as vice president on James Garfield's Republican ticket ).

He became president upon Garfield's death on September 19, 1881, due to being shot by the self-proclaimed " Stalwart of the Stalwarts ," Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881.

File: Garfield-casket. jpg | James A. Garfield's coffin lying in state on the Lincoln Catafalque in the United States Capitol Rotunda, 1881.

MacVeagh was the 36th Attorney General of the United States in 1881 under President James A. Garfield, but resigned shortly after Garfield's death.

Following Garfield's 1880 election, there was wide speculation that he would name Walker to be Secretary of the Interior, but Walker had accepted the offer to become President of MIT in the spring of 1881 instead.

He served in this capacity until he became President Garfield's Secretary of the Navy in 1881.