Infectious Disease Deaths in New Jersey: Jackie Wilson, John Archibald Wheeler, James A. Garfield, John List, Jp Miller, H. Otto Wittpenn

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Jackie Wilson, John Archibald Wheeler, James A. Garfield, John List, JP Miller, H. Otto Wittpenn, Peter Farmer Wanser, Robert Clayton Maffett, Jonathan Dickinson, Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, Ira Condict, William C. Farr, Walter H. Seward, Egbert Seymour, Ted Sorel. Excerpt: James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Postal Service. Garfield made notable ambassador and judiciary appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Garfield appointed several African Americans to prominent federal positions. Garfield, the scholar President, successfully managed a national debt crisis without having to call a special session of Congress. Garfield was a self-made man who came from a modest background, having been raised in obscurity on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and brothers. Garfield ambitiously worked his way doing manual labor jobs to obtain and finance his education. Achieving his goal in 1856, Garfield graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican, after campaigning for the party's antislavery platform in Ohio. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and in 1860 was admitted to practice law while serving as an Ohio State Senator (1859-1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga. He was first elected to Congress in 1863 as Representative of the 19th District of Ohio. Throug...