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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: John Hay, Mark Hanna, Eliot Ness, James A. Garfield, John D. Rockefeller, Worthy S. Streator, Charles W. Chesnutt, Newton D. Baker, Harvey Williams Cushing, Henry D. Coffinberry, Rufus P. Spalding, Charles F. Brush, Ray Chapman, Van Sweringen brothers, Carl Stokes, George Worthington, Lucretia Garfield, Garrett Morgan, Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr., Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Frances P. Bolton, Jeptha Wade, George M. Humphrey, William B. Castle, Myron T. Herrick, Samuel Mather, Chester C. Bolton, Samuel Starkweather, James Salisbury, Henry Sherwin, Charles Sumner Schneider, Jacob A. Beidler, Carl Gaertner, L. Paul Howland, Amos Townsend, Richard C. Parsons, John Crowell, William R. Van Aken, Martin A. Foran, Edward S. Flint, John Hutchins, Herman M. Chapin, L. L. Marshall, Clifton B. Beach, Lorenzo A. Kelsey, Sereno Peck Fenn, William Collins, William J. White, Adella Prentiss Hughes, Charles Berger, Gertrude Harrison. Excerpt: James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Postal Service. Garfield made notable ambassador and judiciary appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Garfield appointed several African Americans to prominent federal positions. Garfield, the scholar President, successfully managed a national debt crisis without having to call a special session of Congress. Garfield was a self-made man who came from a modest background, having been raised in obscurity on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and brothers. Garfield ambitiously...