The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

He was born in Virginia, but some say there is a case to be made that he should be considered an Ohio president.

By 1881, a joint resolution was passed as the city prepared for the inauguration of then-President-elect James A. Garfield. A Presidential Inaugural Committee was formed with a chairman appointed ...

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington ... attorney” passed over for a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington, D.C. railroad station. Garfield would not ...

The first images from Netflix's Death By Lightning introduce Michael Shannon's James Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as his downfall, Charles Guiteau.

For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to watch the inauguration of the incoming president, with some noteworthy exceptions.

William Henry Harrison’s inaugural address in 1841 lasted an ... 1885, Grover Cleveland, 54 degrees. 1881, James Garfield, 33 degrees. 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes, 35 degrees.

Trump Vance Inaugural Committee Announces Presidential ... This custom, started by President James Garfield in 1881, has grown to include military and civilian participants from across states.

While most inauguration ceremonies in the years since have taken place in Washington, not all of them have happened there. After President James Garfield was shot in 1881, then-Vice President ...