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The Star Route scandal was a political scandal in the United States, stemming from allegations of bribery and bid rigging in the United States Post Office Department which came to light as early as 1872 and which were the focus of public scrutiny following the election of President James A. Garfield. There were no fewer than four federal ...
Replica of the log cabin in Moreland Hills, Ohio, where Garfield was born. James Abram Garfield was born the youngest of five children on November 19, 1831, in a log cabin in Orange Township, now Moreland Hills, Ohio. [b] Garfield's ancestor Edward Garfield migrated from Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England, to Massachusetts around 1630.
Clifford Berryman's cartoon depiction of Eugene V. Debs' campaign from prison satirizes Warren G. Harding's front porch campaign in the Election of 1920.. A front porch campaign is a low-key electoral campaign used in American politics in which the candidate remains close to or at home where they issue written statements and give speeches to supporters who come to visit.
The cat's name is a tribute to Davis’s beloved grandfather, James A. Garfield Davis—"a large gruff man with very kind eyes, so the personality fits Garfield," the cartoonist told The Today ...
Handwritten caption by James A. Garfield indicates it was used as evidence before the Committee of Banking & Currency during hearings in 1870. On September 24, 1869, a gold panic broke out in the United States, triggering a financial crisis.
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A political cartoon from 1882, criticizing Chinese exclusion. During the Garfield administration, Secretary of State James G. Blaine attempted to invigorate United States diplomacy in Latin America, urging reciprocal trade agreements and offering to mediate disputes among the Latin American nations. [162]
James Albert Wales (30 August 1852 in Clyde, Ohio – 6 December 1886 in New York City) was an American caricaturist. After leaving school, he apprenticed himself to a wood engraver in Toledo, but soon afterward went to Cincinnati , and thence to Cleveland , where he drew cartoons for the Leader during the presidential canvass of 1872.