James A. Garfield

One of the most intelligent men ever to live in the White House, Garfield had great - but tragically unfulfilled - potential. He is of Manx descent, as evidenced by his surname. He was the last person elected President directly from the United States House of Representatives. He particularly enjoys watching his children as they participate in team sports. Garfield was buried, with great and solemn ceremony, in a mausoleum in Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Quayle enjoys golf, tennis, basketball, skiing, horseback riding, fly fishing, and reading. Guiteau was sentenced to death, and was executed by hanging on June 30, 1882 in Washington, D.C.. They are the parents of three children: Tucker, Benjamin, and Corinne.

He insisted (with some validity, as is now recognized) that incompetent medical care had really killed the President. In November 1972, Quayle married the former Marilyn Tucker of Indianapolis. Guiteau was found guilty of assassinating Garfield, despite his lawyers raising an insanity defense. He is the son of Jim and Corinne Quayle of Huntington, Indiana. Several inserted their unsterilized fingers into the wound to probe for the bullet, and one doctor punctured Garfield's liver in doing so. Quayle, the oldest of four children, has two brothers and a sister: Chris, Mike, and Martha. Most historians and medical experts now believe that Garfield probably would have survived his wound, had the doctors attending him been more capable. The former vice president also writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.

The ailing President had been moved to Elberon, a seaside community, in the vain hope that the fresh air and quiet there might aid his recovery. His second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong, came out in the spring of 1996 and Worth Fighting For came out in 1999. on Monday September 19, 1881 in Elberon, New Jersey. Dan Quayle is the author of Standing Firm, a vice-presidential memoir that became a nationwide bestseller. Garfield became increasingly ill over a period of several weeks due to infection and died 80 days after he was shot, of blood poisoning and bronchial pneumonia at 10:35 p.m. He is an Honorary Trustee Emeriti of the Hudson Institute. This was not realized at the time, bedframes being relatively rare. Former Vice President Dan Quayle is an advisor to the firm Cerberus Capital Management and president of Quayle and Associates.

Alexander Graham Bell devised a metal detector in an attempt to find the bullet, but the metal bedframe Garfield was lying on confused the instrument. He is sometimes mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008. The second bullet that struck Garfield lodged in his back and could not be found. He withdrew from the race the following month. Garfield's assassination was instrumental to the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act on January 16, 1883. In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Iowa straw poll of August 1999, he finished 8th. Guiteau was upset because of the rejection of his repeated attempts to be appointed as the United States consul in Paris--a position for which he had absolutely no qualifications--and was mentally ill as well. In April 1999 he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2000 Presidential Election.

As he was being arrested after the shooting, Guiteau excitedly said, "I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts! I did it and I want to be arrested! Arthur is President now," which briefly led to unfounded suspicions that Arthur or his supporters had put Guiteau up to the crime. However, it was ultimately a minor factor in the election, which Bush and Quayle went on to lose. Blaine. Republicans were largely relieved and pleased, and Quayle's camp hailed his performance as an upset triumph against a veteran debater. The President was walking through Union Station in Washington, D.C., accompanied by Secretary of State James G. Quayle faced off against Gore in the vice-presidential debate, and, due in part to exceeding low expectations and staying on the offensive by tactics such as criticizing passages in Gore's book Earth in the Balance [During planning negotiations for the upcoming televised debates, Vice-President Quayle's team insisted that he be able to hold a copy of Gore's book for dramatic effect- the Gore team retorted that Gore ought to be able to hold up a potato.] Quayle was generally seen to have at least tied Gore, faring much better than he had against Bentsen four years earlier. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, less than four months after taking office. Al Gore.

Garfield was shot by Charles J. Bill Clinton and Sen. In his brief term in office, Garfield appointed a single Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States:. During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by Democrats Gov.
. In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress, made the comment, "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.". Arthur of New York, was a member of the "Stalwarts," who advocated the retention of the patronage system and a tougher stance regarding the former Confederate states. In the 1992-93 season premiere of Murphy Brown, Brown, the character, watched Quayle's comments on television and responded on the show.

His Vice President, Chester A. The "Murphy Brown speech" and the resulting media coverage damaged the Republican ticket in the 1992 presidential election and became one of the most memorable incidents of the 1992 campaign. Garfield was a leader of the "Half-Breeds," who supported civil service reform and Hayes's relatively lenient treatment of the postwar South. In an aside, he specifically cited the fictional title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this "poverty of values", saying: "[i]t doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown—a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman—mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'" Quayle drew a firestorm of criticism from feminist and liberal organizations and was widely ridiculed by late night talk show hosts for this remark. During his administration, Garfield did his best to mediate Republican Party infighting. on a decay of moral values and family structure in American society. President Garfield took office on March 4, 1881. In this speech Quayle blamed the violence in L.A.

presidential election, 1880). On May 19, 1992 Quayle gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California on the subject of the Los Angeles riots. (The popular vote was much closer; see U.S. The misspelling remains a source of intense criticism of Quayle's leadership abilities. Garfield defeated the Democratic candidate, Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155. It was widely lambasted by comedians and commentators, and purportedly demonstrated defective execution of official duties. Senate seat to which Garfield had been chosen ultimately went to John Sherman, whose presidential candidacy Garfield had gone to the convention to support. The event became the single most memorable and lasting part of Quayle's career.

Ironically, the U.S. Quayle was allegedly relying on a spelling-bee card on which the word had been misspelled by the teacher. The 35th ballot saw an even greater groundswell of support from former Blaine and Sherman supporters (Grant's supporters remained unanimously behind the former President), and on the 36th ballot Garfield was nominated, with virtually all of Blaine and Sherman's delegates breaking ranks to vote for the dark horse nominee. Most famous was his correcting a student's spelling of potato as potatoe at an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey on June 15, 1992. With neither Grant, Blaine nor Sherman able to win a majority of delegates after the first day of balloting, on the first ballot of the second day (and 34th overall) Wisconsin's delegation suddenly shifted all its votes to Garfield, who was aghast at the thought that he might be trying to thwart his friend Sherman's effort. Other critics facetiously remarked that he was a good reason for even Bush's critics to pray for his health and that he was only Vice President to make Bush "impeachment-proof". Garfield strongly supported Sherman and made a speech formally nominating him, but early balloting made it clear that Sherman would not be the nominee. He received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for "demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education" in 1991.

Blaine, and Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, a fellow Ohioan. Bush. Grant, Maine's James G. [1] Some of the comments he actually did make have been attributed to other politicians, such as George W. Later that year at their presidential nominating convention, the Republicans were split between former President Ulysses S. One reason was that he sometimes made confused or garbled statements, although this tendency led to his being "credited" with apocryphal quotations. He would never serve a day in the Senate, however. Throughout his time as Vice President, Quayle was widely ridiculed in the media and by some of the general public as a mental lightweight.

The Ohio legislature, which had recently again come under Republican control, chose Garfield as his replacement, commencing in 1881. On February 9, 1989, President Bush named Quayle head of the Council on Competitiveness. Senator Allen Granberry Thurman's term. As Vice President, Quayle was the first chairman of the National Space Council, a space policy body reestablished by statute in 1988. It began with the impending end of Democratic U.S. Quayle was the 44th Vice President of the United States from January 20, 1989, to January 20, 1993. In 1880, Garfield's life underwent tremendous change. Although Republicans were trailing by up to 15 points in public opinion polls taken prior to the convention, the Bush/Quayle ticket went on to win the November election by a convincing 54-46 margin, sweeping 40 states and capturing 426 electoral votes.

Garfield National Historic Site. The ads, however, seemed to have little effect. The home is now maintained by the National Park Service as the James A. Ads supporting Michael Dukakis and Bentsen showed a beeping heart monitor and an announcer saying, "Quayle: just a heartbeat away," with the implication that Quayle was not up to the job of the presidency should he have to assume it. That year, he also purchased the property in Mentor that reporters later dubbed Lawnfield, and from which he would go on to conduct the first successful front porch campaign for the Presidency. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Quayle sheepishly responded, "That was uncalled for, Senator," in one of the defining moments of the 1988 campaign. Tilden. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.

Hayes in his contest for the Presidency against Samuel J. I knew Jack Kennedy. In 1876 Garfield was a Republican member of the Electoral Commission that awarded 22 hotly-contested electoral votes to Rutherford B. Democratic candidate Lloyd Bentsen said in rebuttal, "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. Blaine moved from the House to the United States Senate, Garfield became the Republican Floor Leader of the House. This came to a head in the 1988 vice-presidential debate, in which Quayle compared his experience to that of John Kennedy when he became president. In 1876, when James G. Many in the media also portrayed him as a lightweight unable to handle the job.

In the House during the Civil War and the following Reconstruction era, he was one of the most hawkish Republicans, seeking to defeat and later weaken the South at every opportunity. Questions were raised about Quayle's apparent use of family connections to get into the Indiana National Guard and thus avoid possible combat service in the Vietnam War. He succeeded in gaining re-election every two years up through 1878. This decision was criticized by many who felt that Quayle did not have enough experience to be president should something happen to Bush. In 1863, he re-entered politics, being elected to the United States House of Representatives that year. Bush called on Quayle to be his running mate in the general election. He also fought at Chickamauga, eventually rising to the rank of major general. W.

He was transferred in April 1862 to the west, in time to participate in the Battle of Shiloh. In August 1988, at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, George H. His victory brought him early recognition. The nomination was later withdrawn. He ordered a withdrawal to Prestonsburg, so he could resupply his men. It was later revealed that Manion was a member of the John Birch Society and that the American Bar Association had evaluated him as unqualified. At the end of the day's fighting, the Confederates withdrew from the field, but Garfield did not pursue them. In 1986, Quayle received much criticism from his fellow Senators for championing the cause of Daniel Manion, who was a candidate to be a federal judge.

Garfield attacked on January 9. This was the only major legislation that ever bore Quayle's name the entire time he served in both the House and the Senate. The Confederates withdrew to the forks of Middle Creek, two miles from Prestonsburg, Kentucky, on the road to Virginia. In 1982, working with Senator Edward Kennedy, Quayle authored the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The march was uneventful until Union forces reached Paintsville, Kentucky, where Garfield's cavalry engaged the Confederate cavalry at Jenny's Creek on January 6, 1862. With his service on the Armed Services Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Labor and Human Resources Committee, he became an effective Senator, respected by colleagues on both sides of the aisle. In December, he departed Catlettsburg, Kentucky, with the 40th and 42nd Ohio and the 14th and 22nd Kentucky infantry regiments, as well as the 2nd (West) Virginia Cavalry and McLoughlin's Squadron of Cavalry. Senate, Quayle became widely known for his legislative work in the areas of defense, arms control, labor, and human resources.

Don Carlos Buell assigned Garfield the task of driving Confederate forces out of eastern Kentucky in November 1861, giving him the 18th Brigade for the campaign. During his tenure in the U.S. Gen. Making Indiana political history again, Quayle was reelected to the Senate in 1986 with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate in a statewide Indiana race. With the start of the Civil War, Garfield enlisted in the Union Army, and was assigned to command the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Senate from the State of Indiana, defeating three-term incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh. Notably, Garfield found a new proof for the Pythagorean theorem in 1876. In 1980, at age 33, Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the U.S.

He was an enthusiastic Republican all his political life. He won reelection in 1978 by the greatest percentage margin ever achieved to that date in the northeast Indiana district. He was elected an Ohio state senator in 1859, serving until 1861. Congress from Indiana's Fourth Congressional District, defeating an eight-term incumbent Democrat. Even before admission to the bar, he entered politics. In 1976, Quayle was elected to the U.S. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1860. Upon receiving his law degree, Quayle worked as associate publisher of his family's newspaper, the Huntington Herald-Press, and practiced law with his wife in Huntington.

Garfield decided that the academic life was not for him, and studied law privately. From 1973-1974, he was the Director of the Inheritance Tax Division of the Indiana Department of Revenue. A son, James Rudolph Garfield, followed him into politics and became Secretary of the Interior under Theodore Roosevelt. Later that year, he became an administrative assistant to Governor Edgar Whitcomb. They had five children. Quayle's public service began in July 1971 when he became an investigator for the Consumer Protection Division of the Indiana Attorney General's Office. On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Rudolph. While serving in the Guard, he earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1974 at Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis through an experimental program intended to offer "equal opportunity" to minorities, the economically disadvantaged and other students of different viewpoints and backgrounds.

Remarkably, the ambidextrous Garfield could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other. After receiving his degree, Quayle joined the Indiana National Guard and served from 1969-1975. He was an instructor in classical languages for the 1856-1857 academic year, and was made president of the Institute from 1857 to 1860. degree in political science in 1969, and where he was a member of the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon. He then taught at the Eclectic Institute. He then matriculated at DePauw University, where he received his B.A. He then transferred to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1856, as an outstanding student who enjoyed all subjects except chemistry. After spending much of his youth in Arizona, he graduated from Huntington High School in Huntington, Indiana in 1965.

From 1851 to 1854 he attended the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later named Hiram College) in Hiram, Ohio. Quayle moved his family to Arizona in 1955 to run a branch of family's publishing empire. He grew up cared for by his mother and an uncle. James C. He was named for his older brother James Ballou Garfield, who died in infancy, and his father, who died in 1833, when James Abram was 18 months old. Pulliam, was a wealthy and influential publishing magnate who founded Central Newspapers, Inc., owner of over a dozen major newspapers such as the Arizona Republic and The Indianapolis Star. He was born in Orange Township, now Moreland Hills, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, southeast of Cleveland to Abram Garfield and Eliza Ballou. His maternal grandfather, Eugene C.

. In his memoirs, Dan Quayle points out that his birth name was simply James Danforth Quayle. Holding office from March to September of 1881, President Garfield was in power for a total of just six months and fifteen days. He has often been incorrectly referred to as James Danforth Quayle III. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Quayle and Corrine Pulliam Quayle. His term was the second shortest in U.S. Quayle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to James C.

President to be assassinated. . James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. In 2000, he was an unsuccessful candidate to win the Republican nomination for President of the United States. History of the United States (1865-1918). Bush (1989-1993). presidential election, 1880. W.

U.S. James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) was the 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. Of the 256 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorm in the "Pythagorean Proposition" by Elisha Scott Loomis, one is attributed to Garfield. hardcover, ISBN 0060177586; mass market paperback, May, 1995; ISBN 0061093904; Limited edition, 1994, ISBN 0060176016. Garfield was the first ambidextrous President. Dan Quayle, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, Harper Collins, May 1994. Stanley Matthews - 1881.