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James Garfield
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James Garfield was the first and only cat to ever be elected to the presidency. While serving, his owner, Jon Arbuckle made most of the decisions. Garfield was ... fond of lasagna. In fact, he ate himself to death, having sudden cardiac arrest caused by fatty blockages in his arteries created by carbohydrate intake. No, that's actually liberal nonsense. The truth is that God sent a blood clot to kill him the way he did with Ariel Sharon.
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James Garfield's father was a farmer in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He died before James was two, and the child was raised by his mother and older brother. They were very poor, and James had little chance to go to school, but he went to school wherever and whenever he could. He worked at any kind of job that would leave time for his books. He learned rapidly. He could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.
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For James Garfield's history differs greatly in one point from that of most other famous working men, whose stories have been told in this volume. There is no reason to believe that he was a man of exceptional or commanding intellect. On the contrary, his mental powers appear to have been of a very respectable but quite ordinary and commonplace order. It was not by brilliant genius that James Garfield made his way up in life; it was rather by hard work, unceasing energy, high principle, and generous enthusiasm for the cause of others. Some of the greatest geniuses among working men, such as Burns, Tannahill, and Chatterton, though they achieved fame, and though they have enriched the world with many touching and beautiful works, must be considered to have missed success in life, so far as their own happiness was concerned, by their unsteadiness, want of self-control, or lack of fixed principle. Garfield, on the other hand, was not a genius; but by his sterling good qualities he ... achieved what cannot but be regarded as a true success, and left an honourable name behind him in the history of his country.
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James Garfield "rode" his performance during the Battle of Chickamauga to the White House, literally. As a brigadier general and William S. Rosecrans Chief-of-Staff, Garfield accompanied Rosecrans to the relative safety of McFarland Gap, between Chickamauga and Rossville. He then rode 6 miles back to Snodgrass Hill to rejoin the line hastily formed by General George Thomas, where he appraised the situation, acting as Rosecrans eyes and ears.
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James Garfield was born on November 19, 1831 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio; a few miles south of Cleveland. Before James turned two, his father died. His mother was left with four children to raise and barely had any money. Three of the four children were able to help the Widow Garfield farm her land in Orange Township, Ohio, but James was too young to work.
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On July 2nd, after breakfast with James S. Blaine, the two men went to the Baltimore & Potomac train station for Garfield to catch a train. They were heading to a big convention. Suddenly, someone fired a gun. James A. Garfield had been shot. The shot killed him. The assassin was Charles J. Guiteau who was a crazed lawyer (are there any other kind?).
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