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James A. Garfield was the 20th U.S. President (1881). He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. James was the last president to have been born in a log cabin. He was always admired for climbing his way out of poverty to become a successful teacher, educator, preacher, civil war hero, and national leader.
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James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was an Ohio native. Born in what is now Moreland Hills, he attended what became Hiram College and lived in Mentor before moving to Washington and the House of Representatives and ultimately the White House. He was assassinated and died just six months after taking office. His castle-like tomb is located in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery.
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As the last of the log cabin Presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measure of prestige which it had lost during the Reconstruction period. He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. Fatherless at two, he later drove canal boat teams, somehow earning enough money for an education. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856 and returned to Hiram College in Ohio as a classics professor. Within a year he was made its president. Garfield was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Republican.
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James A. Garfield had served as President for just four months before the assassin’s bullets hit him. He was born to Abram Garfield and Eliza Ballou in a log cabin in Ohio, and his father died when he was two years old. His mother raised him on the family’s 30 acre farm. Garfield left home to attend college, graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts. He procured a teaching position (professor of ancient languages) at Ohio’s Hiram College and within a short time became college president. He married Lucretia Rudolph and began a family that included seven children (two died in infancy).
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James A. Garfield's political career came to a sudden and tragic end shortly after his greatest triumph. In 1880, he unexpectedly became the Republican Party's candidate for president. He won the election and took office in March 1881. But in July he was shot and severely wounded, and three months later he died of his wounds.
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President James A. Garfield was remembered with this monument provided by the Garfield Monument Committee in 1884. Sculptor Frank Happersberger incorporated the symbolism of the seated figure holding a broken sword to express the assassination of Garfield. The monument is located on a grassy knoll on John F. Kennedy Drive, near the Conservatory of Flowers.
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