Resultado da Busca
James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865 – March 24, 1950) was an American lawyer and politician. Garfield was a son of President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. He served as Secretary of the Interior during President Theodore Roosevelt's administration.
James R. Garfield became an active, reform-minded Republican and served two terms in the Ohio Senate from January 1896 to April 1898. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him to the Federal Civil Service Commission, which had been established as a result of his father’s assassination.
Learn how James R. Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, championed a free public library in his hometown of Mentor, Ohio. Read his letters, challenges, and achievements in this article from the National Park Service.
Learn about the life and career of James Rudolph Garfield, the son of President James A. Garfield and a Progressive politician. Find resources on his education, law practice, government service, and presidential campaign.
Mentor, Ohio was home for James Rudolph Garfield from his fourteenth year to his eighty-fifth. In part one of this blog series you read of his dedication to the creation of free library system for Mentor.
Learn how James R. Garfield, the son of President James A. Garfield, welcomed and cared for eight English children who fled the Nazi invasion in 1940. Read their stories and see photos of their happy life at Hollycroft.
Garfield was a founder and trustee of the Community Fund; the first legal counsel for the CLEVELAND FOUNDATION, vice-president of the Cleveland Welfare Fed. from 1917-20, and trustee of the Speech & Hearing Clinic, the Humane Society, the LAKE VIEW CEMETERY, Lake Erie College, and the WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
