THREE CHEERS FOR JAMES A. GARFIELD
I love the Hubbub but there's one thing that bothers me about it. We don't talk enough about our 20th president James A. Garfield!
I've been waiting months for you all to shut up already about Poe and Keith Richards and discuss good ol' Jimmy G! So now I guess I have to...
The last chief executive born of humble origins in a log cabin who was cruelly shot only 200 days into his presidency (125 years ago this month).Then the poor guy painfully lingers on with bullets lodged in his spine before expiring 80 days later.
And what does he get for that?
Lincoln got a tunnel, a memorial, countless schools and a Nebraskan capital named after him.
McKinley got the largest mountain in North America.
And don't get me started on Kennedy...
But Garfield got a one-horse town in Bergen County, New Jersey, as far as I know (I haven't seen much of Ohio).
His assassin, Charles Guiteau, rather than having been executed, should have been sentenced to spending the rest of his life locked in a room listening to Charles A. Arthur drone on about tariff laws.
I feel better now. This was not a Friday Rant, more like a Tuesday Reckoning.
Who do you feel is an important person The Hubbub should discuss more?
I've been waiting months for you all to shut up already about Poe and Keith Richards and discuss good ol' Jimmy G! So now I guess I have to...
The last chief executive born of humble origins in a log cabin who was cruelly shot only 200 days into his presidency (125 years ago this month).Then the poor guy painfully lingers on with bullets lodged in his spine before expiring 80 days later.
And what does he get for that?
Lincoln got a tunnel, a memorial, countless schools and a Nebraskan capital named after him.
McKinley got the largest mountain in North America.
And don't get me started on Kennedy...
But Garfield got a one-horse town in Bergen County, New Jersey, as far as I know (I haven't seen much of Ohio).
His assassin, Charles Guiteau, rather than having been executed, should have been sentenced to spending the rest of his life locked in a room listening to Charles A. Arthur drone on about tariff laws.
I feel better now. This was not a Friday Rant, more like a Tuesday Reckoning.
Who do you feel is an important person The Hubbub should discuss more?
posted by smelly at 4:54 PM
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On Garfield, interesting isn’t it that his assassin referred to himself as a "Stalwart of the Stalwarts." Look over at the Contributors section in the right hand margin. Could The Hubbub be the last redoubt of a descendant of that Stalwart, Guiteau? And worse yet! Isn’t Guiteau a French name?!
You know what Guiteau deserved? A good Rochambeau!
Our Stalwart has never posted anything; perhaps he's too busy planning something treacherous.
While we're on the topic of dead presidents, how about James Monroe? He was interred for 27 years in New York City at New York City Marble Cemetery, not far from where I live. He was later re-interred (is that a word?) in 1858 at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
You tell 'em la philamiaCleve!!!
Garfield Garfield Garfield!!! WooHoo!!!!
Ohio! While Grover Cleveland might have been born in New Jersey he was a true native son of Buffalo, NY. He served as Buffalo's Mayor and later as Governor of New York State before becoming President, the only President, incidentally, to serve two non-consecutive terms. He is also the only President to be married in the White House. His bride? Frances Folsom, who as a child lived with her widowed mother for a few years in my hometown of Medina, NY, in this house on a corner of North Main Street.
Judging by the size of him, Taft should count as two presidents, probably three.
No, it would just weigh twice as much.
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