|
Affiliation | Republican |
|
Name | James R. Garfield |
Address | Hiram, Ohio , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
Born |
October 17, 1865
|
Died | March 24, 1950
(84 years)
|
Contributor | ... |
Last Modifed | RBH Jun 24, 2019 03:40pm |
Tags |
|
Info | 1865-1950, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1907-9), b. Hiram, Ohio; son of President James A. Garfield. After being admitted to the Ohio bar in 1888, he became a lawyer in Cleveland. He was a member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission (1902-3) and commissioner of corporations in the Dept. of Commerce and Labor (1903-7) before being given a cabinet post under President Theodore Roosevelt. Garfield was a noted advocate of the conservation of natural resources. In the 1912 election he aided Roosevelt and the Progressive party in their unsuccessful bid for power.
|
| BOOKS |
|
|
Title |
Purchase |
Contributor |
|
Start Date |
End Date |
Type |
Title |
Contributor |
|
Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
| INFORMATION LINKS |
|
|
|