On this date, September
19, 1881, the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield
passed away, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July
2, 1881. In loving memory of this President, who was a devout Christian, we
will post one of his quotes.
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[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/588132]
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QUOTE: “If
there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than
another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the
face and tell him he is a devil.”
AUTHOR: James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881)
served as the 20th President of the United States (1881), after completing nine
consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863–81). Garfield's
accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of
Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments;
energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Post Office
Department. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judiciary appointments,
including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Garfield appointed several
African-Americans to prominent federal positions.
Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his
widowed mother and elder brother, next door to their cousins, the Boyntons,
with whom he remained very close. He worked at many jobs to finance his higher
education at Williams College, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1856.
A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican, after
campaigning for the party's antislavery platform in Ohio. He married Lucretia
Rudolph in 1858 and, in 1860, was admitted to practice law while serving as an
Ohio State Senator (1859–1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served
as a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought
in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh and Chickamauga. He was first elected to
Congress in 1862 as Representative of the 19th District of Ohio.
Throughout Garfield's extended Congressional service after the Civil
War, he fervently opposed the Greenback, and gained a reputation as a skilled
orator. He was Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee and the
Appropriations Committee and a member of the Ways and Means Committee. Garfield
initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, then
favored a moderate approach for civil rights enforcement for Freedmen. In 1880,
the Ohio legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate; in that same year, the
leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G.
Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their
convention. Garfield became the party's compromise nominee for the 1880
Presidential Election and successfully campaigned to defeat Democrat Winfield
Hancock in the election. He is thus far the only sitting Representative to have
been elected to the presidency.
Garfield's presidency lasted just 200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his
death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J.
Guiteau on July 2, 1881. Only William Henry Harrison's presidency, of 31 days,
was shorter. Garfield was the second of four United States Presidents who were
assassinated. President Garfield advocated a bi-metal monetary system,
agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for
African-Americans. He proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually
passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law by his successor, Chester A.
Arthur, as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
PLEASE GO
TO THESE LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 20TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES:
1. Biographical Sketch On The Life Of James A. Garfield.
2. Christian Quotes by James A. Garfield.
3. Bible
Verses that were used by James A. Garfield.
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