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James A. Garfield: United States
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Garfield and Secretary of State Blaine, leaders of the Half-Breed faction of the Republican party (so called because their opponents thought they were half-Democrat), struggled against Senator Ros-coe Conkling and other “Stalwart†Republicans over appointments to positions in his administration. Eventually, Garfield appointed his own man as collector of the Port of New York, signaling his victory. He ... started an investigation of corruption in the post office department, which involved the awarding of certain mail routes to political favorites who then submitted inflated claims for payment.
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Garfield is the only person in US history to be a Representative, Senator-elect, and President-elect at the same time. To date, he is the only Representative to be directly elected President of the United States.
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For some period after the shooting, Garfield was fed rectally [2c]. Comment: It would be interesting to know if this was an innovation at the time and whether, due to absorptive peculiarities of the rectum, this could have led to a deficiency state of any kind.
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