James A. Garfield - Wikipedia
Garfield's accomplishments as president included his assertion of presidential authority against senatorial courtesy in executive appointments, a purge of corruption in the Post Office, and his appointment of a Supreme Court justice. He advocated for agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African Americans.
“It Bristles with Law Points”: James A. Garfield’s Career as a Lawyer ...
Lawyer James A. Garfield argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, seen here in 1868. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase had been a close friend of Garfield’s during the Civil War while Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Garfield a young Union officer awaiting orders in Washington, D.C.
“It Bristles with Law Points”: James A. Garfield’s Career as a Lawyer ...
2021年1月29日 · James Garfield’s legal career didn’t begin until the war was over and he was serving in Congress. He was asked by Jeremiah Sullivan Black—a friend, a fellow Disciple of Christ, and a Democrat—to join him in arguing a case called Ex parte Milligan before the United States Supreme Court.
“The Most Important Political Change We Have Known”: James A. Garfield …
Supreme Court decisions nullified civil rights protections and permitted restrictions on the right to vote. James Garfield’s response was to plead for additional civil rights legislation. “God taught us early that in this fight the fate of our own race was indissolubly linked with that of the black man.
James A. Garfield | The First Amendment Encyclopedia
2023年11月17日 · James A. Garfield, the nation's 20th president, argued for equal protection for former slaves. A former preacher, he also supported religious liberty but disagreed with the Mormon Church over polygamy, thinking it evil and that laws against it should be enforced.
LibGuides: Primary Sources: U.S. Presidents: Garfield
2024年9月12日 · Argument of the Hon. James A. Garfield in the U.S. Supreme Court, March 6, 1866 by James A. Garfield
List of federal judges appointed by James A. Garfield
Despite his short tenure in office, James A. Garfield appointed 5 Article III United States federal judges including 1 Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States and 1 judge to the United States circuit courts and 3 judges to the United States district courts.
James Garfield Study Guide: Section six: Congress - SparkNotes
On March 6, 1866, Garfield argued the first legal case of his career–in front of the United States Supreme Court. In Ex Parte Milligan, one of the most famous cases arising out of the suspension of habeas corpus by President Abraham Lincoln, three men had been convicted of treason by the Indiana military commander and sentenced to hang.
James A. Garfield, Biography, Significance, 20th President
2024年7月7日 · U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite inaugurated James Garfield as President of the United States on March 4, 1881, but he served only six months. At 9:30 a.m., on July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau, a deranged office-seeker, shot the president at the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington, DC.
James A. Garfield: 5 Major Accomplishments - World History Edu
2020年6月7日 · James A. Garfield appointed a U.S. Supreme Court justice – Justice Stanley Matthews. He proposed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which was later completed and signed by his successor, Chester A. Arthur.