|
Candidate |
Electoral Vote |
Popular Vote |
Percent |
|
James A. Garfield Republican |
214 |
4,461,158 |
48.27 |
|
Winfield S. Hancock Democrat |
155 |
4,444,260 |
48.25 |
|
James B. Weaver Greenback |
305,997 |
3.32 | |
|
Other |
14,005 |
0.15 |
Garfield Administration (March 4, 1881-September 19, 1881)
Vice President: Chester A. Arthur Secretary of State: James G. Blaine Secretary of the Treasury: William Windom Secretary of War: Robert T. Lincoln Attorney General: Wayne MacVeagh Postmaster General: Thomas L. James Secretary of the Navy: William H. Hunt Secretary of the Interior: Samuel J.
Kirkwood
Supreme Court Appointment: Stanley Matthews (1881)
Father: Abram Garfield (1799-1833)
Mother: Eliza Ballou Garfield (1801-1888)
Wife: Lucretia Rudolph (1832-1918)
Marriage: November 11, 1858
Children: Eliza (1860-1863); Harry (1863-1942); James Rudolph (1865-1950); Mary (1867-1947); Irvin (1870-1951); Abram (1872-1958); Edward (1874-1876)
James A. Garfield was the youngest Union major general in the Civil War.
As a congressman he was known as the best speaker in the Republican Party.
He entertained friends by writing Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
He was the last president born in a log cabin.
His mother, Elizabeth Ballou Garfield, was the first mother of a president to witness her son’s inauguration.
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