When was abram james born

Sherman's hopes were based on an anticipated deadlock between the two front-runners, which would force the convention to turn to him as a compromise candidate. The convention did, indeed, deadlock and settle on a third person, but that person was Garfield rather than Sherman.

Toward the end of his life Sherman became convinced that his manager had actively betrayed him, but close examination of the records by several historians indicates that this was not so. Garfield knew before the convention that certain parties were working for him as a compromise candidate, but he neither encouraged nor effectively discouraged the talk.

He certainly had presidential ambitions, but like a good party regular, he recognized Sherman's seniority among Ohio politicians and was willing to wait his turn. When the opportunity beckoned in , he was more than ready. The immediate problem was the party's "stalwarts. Arthur, as his vice-presidential candidate, but the leader of the "stalwarts," New York politician Roscoe Conkling, refused to work to get the important New York vote without specific promises from Garfield on patronage.

Conkling believed that he received such promises and did help elect Garfield, but soon after the election, the two fell out. Garfield named Conkling's archenemy, James G. Blaine, to be his secretary of state and increasingly relied on Blaine's counsel. In a battle over the appointment of the collector of customs for the Port of New York one of the richest plums in the Federal patronage , Conkling resigned his Senate seat and asked the New York Legislature, in effect, to rebuke the President by reelecting him.

What might have happened under normal circumstances is impossible to tell, for on July 2, , Garfield was shot in the back in a Washington railroad station by a deranged man named Charles Guiteau, who claimed he had killed the President in order to put Chester A. Arthur into office. Garfield did not die immediately. At the age of seventeen, Garfield took a job steering boats on the Ohio and Erie Canal. Garfield received minimal schooling in Ohio's common schools.

In , he enrolled in the Geauga Seminary in Chester, Ohio. He transferred to Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated in He returned to Hiram College in that same year as a professor of ancient languages and literature. He also served as Hiram's president until the outbreak of the American Civil War. In , Garfield began a political career, winning election to the Ohio Senate as a member of the Republican Party.

He resigned from the army on December 5, , with the rank of major general. Garfield resigned his commission because Ohio voters had elected him to the United States House of Representatives. He served nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives before he was elected President of the United States in Indebted to Blaine for election support, Garfield appointed him secretary of state, angering Roscoe Conkling who unsuccessfully attempted to block Senate approval; the Senate confirmed the appointment, and Conkling resigned from the Senate.

Julius Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker. Garfield suffered agonizing attempts by various physicians to save his life before he died on 19 Sept. Garfield married Lucretia Rudolph in and had seven children: James R. Finding aid for the James A. Abram Garfield was born Dec. However, when Abram heard she married someone else, he decided to leave New York for the Ohio territory in Abram and Eliza crossed paths again in Muskingum County, Ohio where they formed a relationship.

They were married in February of just 3 months later. The newlyweds moved to Newburgh which is Independence, Ohio today. Abram took several contracts to build portions of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Newcomerstown and Independence, which his son James Abram would work on many years later.