Colin Luther Powell was an American statesman,diplomat,and army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American to hold the office. He was the 15th national security advisor from 1987 to 1989,and the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
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. Conspiracy theorists also falsely circulated rumors that Barack Obama was a Muslim during his 2004 Senate campaign and later time as President. 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,United States. 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 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.
Lewis Cass was a United States Army officer and politician. 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 at the time held the idea that people in each U.S state should have the right to decide on whether to permit or prohibit slavery,believing in the idea of states' rights.
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
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.
The powers of the president of the United States include those explicitly granted by Article II of the United States Constitution as well as those granted by Acts of Congress,implied powers,and also a great deal of soft power that is attached to the presidency.
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.
On July 2,1881,James A. Garfield,the 20th president of the United States,was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington,D.C.,resulting in his death 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. He was the second American president to be assassinated,following Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting.
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.
