South of Wichita, in Garfield County, Oklahoma, tornado chasers ( including Warren Faidley, Gene Moore, Howard Bluestein, KJRH-TV meteorologist Gary Shore and many other big-name chasers ) observed the touchdown of what would be the longest tracked tornado of the outbreak.

In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins.

This did not happen and the presidency, having been damaged by three late nineteenth and early twentieth century assassinations ( Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ) and one impeachment ( Johnson ), reasserted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Garfield argued with his superior for an immediate advance, also insisted upon by Lincoln and Rosecrans's commander, Gen. Halleck.

Garfield's detractors later used this letter, which Chase never personally disclosed, to foster widespread criticism of Garfield as a betrayer, despite the fact that Halleck and Lincoln shared the same concerns over Rosecrans's reluctance to attack, and that Garfield had openly conveyed his concerns to Rosecrans.

Garfield became a member of the Radical Republicans, led by Chase, in contrast with the moderate wing of the party, led by Lincoln and Montgomery Blair.

Garfield was as frustrated with Lincoln's lack of aggressiveness in pursuing the rebel enemy as Lincoln had been with Gen. McClellan.

After many false starts, Garfield, with the support of Lincoln, procured the passage of an aggressive conscription bill which excluded commutation.

" With respect to the Presidential election of 1864, Garfield did not consider Lincoln particularly worthy of re-election, but no other viable alternative was available.

Garfield nominated William Windom of Minnesota as Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Hunt of Louisiana as Secretary of the Navy, Robert Todd Lincoln as Secretary of War, Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa as Secretary of the Interior.

* There is a Tilden Street in an area of Wichita Falls, Texas, where the streets are named for the U. S. presidents Van Buren through Garfield ( excluding Pierce, Andrew Johnson and Lincoln ).

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

The county is divided into thirty-seven townships: Antelope, Athol, Belle Plaine, Belmont, Benton, Beotia, Buffalo, Capitola, Clifton, Conde, Cornwall, Crandon, Exline, Frankfort, Garfield, Great Bend, Groveland, Harmony, Harrison, Jefferson, Lake, La Prairie, Lincoln, Lodi, Mellette, Northville, Olean, Prairie Center, Redfield, Richfield, Spring, Sumner, Tetonka, Three Rivers, Tulare, Turton, Union.

The county is divided into fourteen townships: Belmont, Chester, Clark, East Choleau, Garfield, Grandview, Holland, Independence, Iowa, Joubert, Lincoln, Valley, Walnut Grove, Washington.

The county is divided into twenty-seven townships: Ash, Blaine, Collins, Cottonwood, Darlington, Day, Eden, Elrod, Fordham, Foxton, Garfield, Hague, Lake, Lincoln, Logan, Maydell, Merton, Mount Pleasant, Pleasant, Raymond, Richland, Rosedale, Spring Valley, Thorp, Warren, Washington, and Woodland.

The population distribution by township is as follows according to the 2000 census: Banner 54 ; Beaver 60 ; Blaine 60 ; Cedar 619 ; Center 2, 094 ; Cora 38 ; Crystal Plains 40 ; Dor 46 ; Garfield 33 ; German 34 ; Harlan 100 ; Harvey 130 ; Houston 206 ; Lane 134 ; Lincoln 73 ; Logan 47 ; Martin 24 ; Oak 399 ; Pawnee 35 ; Pleasant 34 ; Swan 42 ; Valley 75 ; Washington 63 ; Webster 47 ; White Rock 49.

In 1864, another soon to be President James Garfield spoke in Augusta on behalf of Lincoln.

The ZIP code also serve smaller areas of Redding Township to the north of Freeman, Lincoln Township to the east of Freeman, Surrey Township to the east of Garfield all in Clare County, as well as small areas of Gilmore Township to the east of Coldwater and Sherman Township in Isabella County to the south of Coldwater in Isabella County ; Fork Township to the southwest of Garfield in Mecosta County ; and Orient Township to the west of Garfield in Osceola County.

Most children in Alexandria attend school at Alexandria Public Schools-ISD 206, which consists of six kindergarten-6th grade elementary schools ( Lincoln, Voyager, Woodland, Carlos, Miltona, Garfield ), one 7th-9th grade junior high school ( Discovery Middle School ), and one 10th-12th grade senior high school ( Jefferson High School ).

Alexander F. Lobdell, the store's proprietor, was appointed postmaster by President Abraham Lincoln and was reappointed by Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, continuing as Brewster's postmaster until 1887.

She received her early education at Lincoln and Garfield Elementary Schools.

On the third Saturday in June 1894, a public school children ’ s celebration of Flag Day took place in Chicago at Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks.

When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.

* Jim Davis, famed cartoonist of the comic strip Garfield, was raised in Fairmount.

Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up ; he took his name and personality from Davis's grandfather James A. Garfield Davis, who was, in Davis's words, " a large cantankerous man ".

Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a " good, marketable character ".

Garfield: The Movie was the strip's first feature film.

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.

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.

Also, Garfield Lasagna World Tour was also made for PS2.

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

Also, there was a storyline involving Garfield catching Odie eating his food and “ kicking Odie into next week .” Soon, Garfield realizes that “ Lunch isn ’ t the same without Odie.

On June 19, 2007, Garfield was given the greatest birthday present: “ I ’ M OFF MY DIET !” Occasionally the strip celebrates Halloween as well with scary-themed jokes, such as mask gags.

Another story involved Jon going away on a business trip around Christmas time, leaving Garfield a week's worth of food ( it was more like 11 second's worth of food ) which he devoured instantly, so Garfield leaves his house and gets locked out.

Part of this storyline was taken from the 1983 Emmy-winning special Garfield on the Town.

Originally created with the intentions to " come up with a good, marketable character ", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $ 750 million to $ 1 billion annually.

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

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

Another variation along the same lines, called " Realfield " or " Realistic Garfield ", is to redraw Garfield as a real cat as well as removing his thought balloons.

", and another in which Garfield pulls Odie's tail, which results in his tongue being pulled out.

Other unique themes are things like “ Garfield ’ s Believe it or Don ’ t ,” “ Garfield ’ s Law ", “ Garfield ’ s History of Dogs, and “ Garfield ’ s History of Cats ,” which show science, history and the world from Garfield ’ s point of view.

Another example is " Splut Week ", when Garfield tries to avoid pies that are thrown at him.

According to historian Jean Edward Smith, Grant and Garfield had a " guarded relationship ", since Grant put Thomas in charge of the Army of the Cumberland, rather than Garfield, after Rosecrans was dismissed.

In an effort to heal residual wounds from the convention, Garfield traveled to New York to bring the party's warring factions together in what was called the " New York Conference ", and what was considered a personal triumph.

When told that his party, including his own campaign manager, Stephen W. Dorsey, was involved, Garfield directed MacVeagh and James to root out the corruption in the Post Office Department " to the bone ", regardless of where it might lead.

The first and longest part, " Low Men in Yellow Coats ", takes place in 1960 and revolves around a young boy, Bobby Garfield.

The story of Antinous ' death was recently dramatized in the radio play " The Glass Ball Game ", Episode Two of the second series of the BBC radio drama CAESAR, written by Mike Walker, directed by Jeremy Mortimer and starring Jonathan Coy as " Suetonius ", Jonathan Hyde as " Hadrian " and Andrew Garfield as " Antinous ".

An application was submitted in 1881 for a post office to be named " Garfield ", after U. S. President James A. Garfield, but the name was already in use at the time by another post office.

( Several of the CFA's members, including Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and John Garfield later recanted, saying they had been " duped ", not realizing that some of the Ten were really communists.

Garfield's former colleagues Crawford, Clurman and Strasburg had begun a new theater collective, calling it simply " the Group ", and Garfield lobbied his friends hard to get in.