When the last of the log cabin Presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back the presidency for a certain amount of prestige, it was consistently solves the time of reconstruction.
She was in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, born 1831st Fatherless at two, as he later drove canal boat teams, somehow earning enough money for an education. He was graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856, and he returned to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College) in Ohio as a classics professor. Within a year he became its president.
Garfield was the Ohio Senate as a Republican elected in 1859. During the secession crisis, he advocated forcing back the secession states in the Union.
In 1862, Union military victories had some leg when he successfully led a brigade at Middle Creek, Kentucky, against Confederate troops. On 31 Garfield became a brigadier general, two years later a major general of volunteers.
In the meantime, in 1862, Ohioans elected him to Congress. President Lincoln persuaded him to resign his commission: It was easier to find major generals, as an effective Republicans for Congress receive. Garfield repeatedly won re-election in 18 years and became the leading Republican in the House of Representatives.
At the 1880 Republican Convention, Garfield failed to win the nomination as presidential candidate for his friend John Sherman. Finally on the 36th Ballot, Garfield himself became the "dark horse" nominee.
With a margin of only 10,000 votes, Garfield defeated the Democratic candidate, General .. Winfield Scott Hancock.
Shaft President Garfield strengthened Federal authority over the New York Customs House, Senator Roscoe Conkling, or fortress, the Republican leader and dispenser of patronage were stalwarts in New York. If Garfield to the Senate a list of appointments including many lay Conkling's friends, he named Conkling's arch-rival William H. Robertson to run the Customs House. Conkling contested the nomination, the Senate tried to convince them to block him, and appealed to the Republican caucus to compel its withdrawal.
But Garfield would not submit: "This welcome ... the question whether the President establish registration office of the Senate or the executive or the United States .... If the main port of entry ... be under the control of or the local administration under the control of a factional senator. "
Conkling maneuvered to accept the Senate Garfield's uncontested nominations and adjourn without acting on Robertson have. Garfield countered by confirming with all the nominations only Robertson, the senator would have him or sacrifice all the appointments Conkling's friends.In a last desperate attempt, Conkling and his fellow senator from New York resigned, confident that their legislation would Vindicat your position and re-election of em. Instead, the legislature elected two other people, the Senate confirmed Robertson. Garfield's victory was complete.
In foreign policy, Secretary of State invited all American republics Garfield to a conference in Washington in 1882 to measure. But the conference never fireplace. On 2 July 1881, in a Washington train station, fierce advocate, had sought a consular post shot the President.
Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in the White House for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried in vain to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed. On 6 September Garfield was taken to the New Jersey seaside. Since a few days he seemed to be recovering, but on 19th September 1881, he died of an infection and internal bleeding.
She was in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, born 1831st Fatherless at two, as he later drove canal boat teams, somehow earning enough money for an education. He was graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856, and he returned to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College) in Ohio as a classics professor. Within a year he became its president.
Garfield was the Ohio Senate as a Republican elected in 1859. During the secession crisis, he advocated forcing back the secession states in the Union.
In 1862, Union military victories had some leg when he successfully led a brigade at Middle Creek, Kentucky, against Confederate troops. On 31 Garfield became a brigadier general, two years later a major general of volunteers.
In the meantime, in 1862, Ohioans elected him to Congress. President Lincoln persuaded him to resign his commission: It was easier to find major generals, as an effective Republicans for Congress receive. Garfield repeatedly won re-election in 18 years and became the leading Republican in the House of Representatives.
At the 1880 Republican Convention, Garfield failed to win the nomination as presidential candidate for his friend John Sherman. Finally on the 36th Ballot, Garfield himself became the "dark horse" nominee.
With a margin of only 10,000 votes, Garfield defeated the Democratic candidate, General .. Winfield Scott Hancock.
Shaft President Garfield strengthened Federal authority over the New York Customs House, Senator Roscoe Conkling, or fortress, the Republican leader and dispenser of patronage were stalwarts in New York. If Garfield to the Senate a list of appointments including many lay Conkling's friends, he named Conkling's arch-rival William H. Robertson to run the Customs House. Conkling contested the nomination, the Senate tried to convince them to block him, and appealed to the Republican caucus to compel its withdrawal.
But Garfield would not submit: "This welcome ... the question whether the President establish registration office of the Senate or the executive or the United States .... If the main port of entry ... be under the control of or the local administration under the control of a factional senator. "
Conkling maneuvered to accept the Senate Garfield's uncontested nominations and adjourn without acting on Robertson have. Garfield countered by confirming with all the nominations only Robertson, the senator would have him or sacrifice all the appointments Conkling's friends.In a last desperate attempt, Conkling and his fellow senator from New York resigned, confident that their legislation would Vindicat your position and re-election of em. Instead, the legislature elected two other people, the Senate confirmed Robertson. Garfield's victory was complete.
In foreign policy, Secretary of State invited all American republics Garfield to a conference in Washington in 1882 to measure. But the conference never fireplace. On 2 July 1881, in a Washington train station, fierce advocate, had sought a consular post shot the President.
Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in the White House for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried in vain to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed. On 6 September Garfield was taken to the New Jersey seaside. Since a few days he seemed to be recovering, but on 19th September 1881, he died of an infection and internal bleeding.
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