Essay On James Abrama Garfield

Did you know that James Abram Garfield is the first ever left handed and ambidextrous President? Garfield was the last of only seven Presidents to be born in a log cabin! President Garfield was the second -following Abraham Lincoln- President of the United States to be assassinated.
James was born in Orange Township, Ohio on November 19, 1831. James parents are Eliza and Abram Garfield. He was named James for his brother James who died at an early age and Abram for his Father. James was the youngest of the five children. Abram (James’ father) died when James was not even two years old!
After Abram died, Eliza married Alfred Belden. After a year Eliza left Alfred and returned home with her children. James often got into fights because he was bullied due to him not having a father and the other children did.
In 1848 James left home to go to Cleveland. When he arrived in Cleveland he got a job as a driver on the canal boat Evening Star. Garfield often fell into the cold waters, and after falling several times he caught a fever and malaria. Garfield was sent home due to being incapable to work on the canal boat. When healthy, James decided that he did not want to return to the canal boat Evening Star because he decided that he wanted to further his education.
Garfield, now fully reinvigorated, decided that he was going to enroll at Geauga Academy. At Geauga as a student Garfield was praised, but at the end of his second term Garfield had to leave due to the lack of money.
Garfield received enough education from the Geauga Academy to teach an elementary school as the teacher. As a teacher James saved up most of his money to enroll at Geauga Academy again. Garfield soon got the money he needed and enrolled at Geauga Aca...

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...dates to start campaign speeches. Garfield delivered many speeches during his campaign, and waited on November 2, 1880 for the votes to be announced. Garfield won the election with two hundred and fourteen votes to Hancock’s one hundred and fifty-five votes. James also won the popular vote with 4,449,260 votes to Hancock’s 4,446,158 votes. Garfield’s mother, Eliza Garfield, age eighty-eight years old, was the first Mother alive to witness their son’s inauguration. After being in the White House for eighty days Crete caught malaria and survived.
One day Garfield was traveling, and he got off a train with Blaine and two shots were fired. James fell unconscious. The wound became infected and the doctors could not find the bullet. James went to New Jersey to rest and died in his sleep on September 19, 1881, eighty days after he was shot at the age of forty-nine.