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James A. Garfield
by Ruth Tenzer Feldman
ISBN: 0-8225-1398-6
Lerner Publishing,
© 2005 |
After one of the closest elections in history, 4,449,053 votes to
4,442,035 votes, James A. Garfield was elected President of the United
States in 1881. This was the peak of a long political career,
consisting of more than twenty years in congress and the senate This
account follows his career from a teenage sailor who nearly drowned 14
times, to becoming the most powerful man in the nation. |