詹姆斯·亚伯兰·加菲尔德，俄亥俄州国会议员(1831-1881)

加菲猫，詹姆斯·亚伯兰俄亥俄州众议员，美国第20任总统;1831年11月19日出生于俄亥俄州凯霍加县奥兰治;曾就读于地区学校;俄亥俄运河上的驾驶员和舵手;1849年3月进入俄亥俄州切斯特的乔格神学院;1851-1854年就读于俄亥俄州海拉姆的折衷学院;毕业于马萨诸塞州威廉斯敦的威廉姆斯学院。, 1858;老师;俄亥俄州海拉姆市海拉姆学院古代语言和文学教授;1857-1861年任俄亥俄州海拉姆市海拉姆学院院长; member of the Ohio state senate 1859; lawyer, private practice; Union Army, Ohio Volunteer Infantry 1861-1863; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the eight succeeding Congresses; chair, Committee on Military Affairs (Fortieth Congress); chair, Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-First Congress); chair, Committee on Appropriations (Forty-Second and Forty-Third Congresses); member of the Electoral Commission created by act of Congress approved January 29, 1877, to decide the contests in various States in the presidential election of 1876; elected to the United States Senate on January 13, 1880, for the term beginning March 4, 1881, but declined to accept having been elected President of the United States on November 4, 1880; elected the twentieth President of the United States in 1880 and served from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, in Elberon, N.J., from the effects of an assassinâs attack on July 2, 1881, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.

参考书目

Peskin,艾伦。加菲尔德．俄亥俄州肯特:肯特州立大学出版社，1978年;史密斯，西奥多·克拉克。詹姆斯·亚伯兰·加菲尔德的生平和书信。2波动率。康涅狄格州纽黑文:耶鲁大学出版社，1925年。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今