Hiram College is a private liberal arts college in Hiram,Ohio. It was founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute by Amos Sutton Hayden and other members of the Disciples of Christ Church. The college is nonsectarian and coeducational. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Among its alumni is James A. Garfield,who also served as a college instructor and principal before he was President of the United States.
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States,serving from March 1881 until his assassination in September 1881. A lawyer and Civil War general,Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before his candidacy for the presidency,he had been elected to the U.S. Senate by the Ohio General Assembly—a position he declined when he became president-elect.
Levi Parsons Morton was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France,as a U.S. representative from New York,and as the 31st governor of New York.
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,Albright was the first woman to hold that post.
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency upon an elected president's death,resignation,removal from office,or incapacity.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' struggle for independence. A non-profit group,they promote education and patriotism. The organization's membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the Revolutionary period who aided the cause of independence;applicants must have reached 18 years of age and are reviewed at the chapter level for admission. The DAR has over 185,000 current members in the United States and other countries. Its motto is "God,Home,and Country".
Lewis Cass was an American military officer,politician,and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents,Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee. A slave owner himself,he was a leading spokesman for the doctrine of popular sovereignty,which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery.
Thomas Stanley Matthews,known as Stanley Matthews in adulthood,was an American attorney,soldier,judge and Republican senator from Ohio who became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court,serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889. A progressive justice,he was the author of the landmark ruling in Yick Wo v. Hopkins.
Joseph Clark Grew was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to 1945. He opposed American hardliners,sought to avoid war,and helped to ensure the soft Japanese surrender in 1945 that enabled a peaceful American Occupation of Japan after the war.
Joseph Edward Davies was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912,and First Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1915. He was the second Ambassador to represent the United States in the Soviet Union and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg. From 1939 to 1941 Davies was Special assistant to Secretary of State Hull,in charge of War Emergency Problems and Policies. From 1942 through 1946 he was Chairman of President Roosevelt's War Relief Control Board. Ambassador Davies was Special Advisor of President Harry Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes with rank of Ambassador at the Potsdam Conference in 1945.
Eugene Kerik Garfield was an American lawyer who founded the Auto-Train Corporation. Auto-Train became what is now known as Amtrak's Auto Train. He served in the executive branch of the State of Florida and the federal government.
Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield was an American lawyer,academic,and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I. He was a son of President James A. Garfield.
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke of Boston,Massachusetts,and Washington,D.C. was an American scientist and chemist. Sometimes known as the "Father of Geochemistry," Clarke is credited with determining the composition of the Earth's crust. He was a founder of The American Chemical Society and served as its President,1901.
James A. Garfield,the 20th president of the United States,was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington,D.C.,at 9:30 am on Saturday,July 2,1881. He died in Elberon,New Jersey,79 days later on September 19,1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Garfield's assassin was Charles J. Guiteau,who wanted revenge against Garfield for an imagined political debt and to elevate Chester A. Arthur to the presidency. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting.
The inauguration of Andrew Johnson as the 17th president of the United States was held on April 15,1865,on the third floor of Kirkwood House in Washington,D.C.,following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The inauguration marked the commencement of Andrew Johnson's only term as president. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase administered the presidential oath of office. This was the third non-scheduled,extraordinary inauguration to take place. News reports had it that the oath was administered at 11 a.m. that day.
At 2:15 a.m. Eastern Time on September 20,1881,Chester A. Arthur was inaugurated the 21st president of the United States. The inauguration marked the commencement of Chester A. Arthur's only term as president. The presidential oath of office was administered by New York Supreme Court Justice John R. Brady at Arthur's private residence in New York City. Two days later,Arthur underwent a second inauguration ceremony in Washington,D.C.,with the oath administered by Morrison Waite,the Chief Justice of the United States. Arthur became president following the death of his predecessor James A. Garfield,who had been assassinated by a troubled office seeker,Charles J. Guiteau.
William John Kenney was United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1945–46,Under Secretary of the Navy 1947–1949,and the operating chief of the Marshall Plan from 1950 to 1952..
The James A. Garfield Memorial is a memorial for and the final resting place of assassinated President James A. Garfield,located in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland,Ohio. The memorial,which began construction in October 1885 and was dedicated on May 30,1890,exhibits a combination of Byzantine,Gothic,and Romanesque Revival architectural styles. Garfield,former First Lady Lucretia Garfield,and two other members of the Garfield family are entombed in the crypt level of the monument.
James Northey Miller Jr. is the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis and also serves on the National Security Council staff as U.S. Coordinator for the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) security agreement. He previously served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 18,2012 until January 8,2014 and as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense from April 2009 to February 2012.
