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 ".

The Arbuckle website creator writes: "' Garfield ' changes from being a comic about a sassy, corpulent feline, and becomes a compelling picture of a lonely, pathetic, delusional man who talks to his pets.

Studios launched in May a monthly Garfield comic book, with the first issue featuring a story written by Mark Evanier ( who has supervised Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show ) and illustrated by Davis's long-time assistant Gary Barker.

Odie is a yellow, long-eared beagle with a large, slobbering tongue, who walks on all four legs, though occasionally he will walk on two like Garfield.

Jon has a grandmother who, in a strip, kicked Odie ; Garfield subsequently hugged her.

In the strip, a spider who is about to be squashed by Garfield boasts that if he is squished, he will get a holiday in his remembrance.

Another case around that time was that of Charles J. Guiteau, who assassinated President James Garfield in 1881.

* 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U. S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.

Richard Channing Garfield, PhD ( born June 26, 1963, Philadelphia ) is a game designer who created the card games Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech CCG, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle ( originally known as Jyhad ), The Great Dalmuti, Star Wars Trading Card Game, and the board game RoboRally.

While searching for a publisher for RoboRally, which he designed in 1985, Garfield found Peter Adkison of Wizards of the Coast, who expressed interest in Magic.

After many changes back and forth, the defense team consisted of Darrow, ACLU attorney Arthur Garfield Hays, and Dudley Field Malone, an international divorce lawyer who had worked at the State Department.

The scandal was to implicate Vice President Schuyler Colfax ( who was cleared ) and future President James Garfield among others.

Garfield was a self-made man who came from a modest background, having been raised in obscurity on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and endearing brother Thomas, who was nine years his senior.

Garfield was the second of four United States Presidents who were assassinated.

Garfield was one of three attorneys who argued for the petitioners in the famous Supreme Court case Ex parte Milligan in 1866.

Family life had also increased in importance to Garfield, who said to his wife in 1871, " When you are ill, I am like the inhabitants of a country visited by earthquakes.

" Garfield stated that those who had the right to vote needed to be literate and stressed the need for federal " universal education.

Sen. Roscoe Conkling who lost a major feud with Garfield

Garfield, who believed the practice to be corrupt, would not back down and threatened to withdraw all nominations unless Robertson was included.

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.

Chase and Garfield shared a disdain for West Point and the President, though Garfield praised the Emancipation Proclamation.

Garfield also shared a negative view of General McClellan, whom he considered the epitome of the Democratic, pro-slavery, poorly-trained West Point generals.

Originally, the railroad's Chicago terminus was the 52nd Avenue station that it shared with the Garfield Park elevated railroad line of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, and where passengers transferred between interurban and elevated trains.

The proposal was thought to be ill-conceived from the outset, but Garfield failed to perceive popular opinion.

Thus his opinion was sought when President James Garfield was shot and transmitted by telegram from Paris.

State funerals have been held in Washington D. C. for William Henry Harrison ( 1841 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1850 ), Abraham Lincoln ( 1865 ), Thaddeus Stevens ( 1868 ), James A. Garfield ( 1881 ), William McKinley ( 1901 ), Warren Harding ( 1920 ), the Unknown Soldier of World War I ( 1921 ), William Howard Taft ( 1930 ), John J. Pershing ( 1948 ), the Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War ( 1958 ), John F. Kennedy ( 1963 ), Douglas MacArthur ( 1964 ), Herbert Hoover ( 1964 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1969 ), Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1973 ), Ronald Reagan ( 2004 ), and Gerald Ford ( 2006-2007 ).

; Washington: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima

Eastern Washington is composed of Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima Counties.

Wash .) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of the state of Washington: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima.

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 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.