Garfield Administration - Garfield Becomes President
The James A. Garfield Administration
Garfield was assassinated only a few months after taking office, not giving him the time to prove himself as president. A relative unknown in national politics at the time of his election, Garfield was faced with the entrenched power and interests of his better known party members when he entered office. Some historians infer that he might have attempted to challenge these interests had he lived. Though Garfield seemed to be at least obliquely confronting the power of the national parties and the spoils system of patronage, whether or not he could have overcome them will never be known.
Garfield Becomes President
The Campaign of 1880
When James Garfield went to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in 1880, he had no...
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