Let's call it History Week at the Oregon at War blog. Today, July 2, is the 131st anniversary of the day that Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield, a former Union general.

C.W. Goodyear’s excellent new biography President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, offers an extensive study of an academic, general, and statesman whose death has overshadowed his ...

GEN. GARFIELD ON THE TARIFF.; HE STATES HIS VIEWS VERY FRANKLY IN A PRIVATE LETTER MADE PUBLIC. Share full article. Jan. 9, 1880. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Thus overtaken, James Garfield can only politely surrender to popular will. His hat lifts to reveal a kindly smile. Eyes like summer lightning invite the people to come along, if they'd like.

James Garfield was elected president in 1880, at a time of extreme political partisanship. Eleven days after the Republican nominated his cabinet, ... Represented as a mail carrier is Postmaster ...

James Garfield was the last president to be born in a log cabin. When James was born in 1831, Ohio was on the edge of the American frontier and had been a state for fewer than 30 years.

Garfield, born poor in Cuyahoga County, was a teacher, Ohio state senator, U.S. congressman and a Civil War general despite having no prior military experience.

General Garfield is eminently a practical politician, and we need not fear that he will make a visionary administration, reaching out after the impossible, or trying to take ten steps at once.

Major-Gen. James Abram Garfield, who was yesterday called to lead the Republican Party in the coming national campaign, is a man who may truly be said to have carved his own pathway, unaided and ...

Traditional accounts of the era depict a procession of bearded nonentities occupying the White House, none more obscure than James A. Garfield (1831-1881). A Union general and politically adroit ...