James A. Garfield

Still others such as James A. Garfield were suspected of complicity and were placed for many years on the defensive.

The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

It's probably a fair bet that most Americans, if they can identify James A. Garfield as a president at all, would be hard put to place him where he belongs in the line of chief executives.

Presidential Malpractice Fergus M. Bordewich 2011

Presidential aspirants looking to burnish their intellectual credentials might follow the example of James A. Garfield, who developed a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem in 1876, while serving as a representative from Ohio; five years later he was in the White House.

All Hail the Hypotenuse Alan Hirshfeld 2011

* Until Harry Truman, only two U.S. presidents out of thirty-two, James A. Garfield and Herbert Hoover, were southpaws.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

* Until Harry Truman, only two U.S. presidents out of thirty-two, James A. Garfield and Herbert Hoover, were southpaws.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

By the time the other three, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and James A. Garfield, entered the nation's highest office, they shared one trait with its other 40 occupants: All had achieved a certain measure of financial prosperity.

The 10 Richest Presidents 2010

By the time the other three, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and James A. Garfield, entered the nation's highest office, they shared one trait with its other 40 occupants: All had achieved a certain measure of financial prosperity.

The 10 Richest Presidents 2010

* Until Harry Truman, only two U.S. presidents out of thirty-two, James A. Garfield and Herbert Hoover, were southpaws.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

James A. Garfield, an 1856 graduate of Williams College, join those of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and

Williams College Quits Club Scene 2010

By the time the other three, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and James A. Garfield, entered the nation's highest office, they shared one trait with its other 40 occupants: All had achieved a certain measure of financial prosperity.

The 10 Richest Presidents 2010