Religious affiliations can affect the electability of the presidents of the United States and shape their stances on policy matters and their visions of society and also how they want to lead it. While no president has ever openly identified as an atheist,Thomas Jefferson,Abraham Lincoln,and William Howard Taft were speculated to be atheists by their opponents during political campaigns;in addition,a survey during the presidency of Donald Trump showed that 63% of Americans did not believe he was religious,despite his professed Christian affiliation. Trump supporters have also circulated conspiracy theories that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Conversely,other presidents,such as Jimmy Carter,have used their faith as a defining aspect of their campaigns and tenure in office.
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 an American politician who served as the 20th president of the United States from March 1881 until his assassination in September that year. A preacher,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,she 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.
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood was an American politician who twice served as governor of Iowa,twice as a U.S. Senator from Iowa,and as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
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 rulings Yick Wo v. Hopkins and Ex parte Crow Dog
Paul Robert Ignatius is an American government official who served as Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 and was the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Lyndon Johnson Administration. He is currently the oldest-living U.S. government official.
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.
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. was an American politician,a Republican from New York. He was the son of New York State Comptroller James Wolcott Wadsworth,and the grandson of Union General James S. Wadsworth.
The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC),more commonly known locally as the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD),and,colloquially,DC Police,is the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia,in the United States. With approximately 3,400 officers and 600 civilian staff,it is the sixth-largest municipal police department in the United States. The department serves an area of 68 square miles (180 km2) and a population of over 700,000 people. Established on August 6,1861,the MPD is one of the oldest police departments in the United States. The MPD headquarters is at the Henry J. Daly Building,located on Indiana Avenue in Judiciary Square across the street from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The department's mission is to "safeguard the District of Columbia and protect its residents and visitors with the highest regard for the sanctity of human life". The MPD's regulations are compiled in title 5,chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Code.
Joseph Edward Davies was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912,and he was the 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.
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,two and a half months later on September 19,1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting.
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 took part in a second inauguration 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 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.
