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The Presidency.. Odds are Good, but the Goods are Odd.... | Wasabi ...  Oct 14, 2016 ... Initially refused to accept his salary while president, but eventually relented. ... He was the first president to live in the White House, he moved in .... However, they did not get married until three years after Fillmore joined the bar. .... After Garfield's death, Arthur did not immediately move into the White House.
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Past U.S. presidents that hailed from NYS | WGRZ.com  Jul 4, 2016 ... After 12 consecutive U.S. presidents from somewhere else, this year ... Parks more famously refused to give up her bus seat to a white man ... As Cleveland and his bride were moving out, the young First Lady told the White House staff to ... that he was elected four times and served from 1933 until his death...
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James A. Garfield - Wikipedia  James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831  September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had ... Throughout Garfield's extended congressional service after the Civil War, he...
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Lucretia Garfield Biography :: National First Ladies' Library  National First Ladies' Library's biography for Lucretia Garfield. ... Although she quickly found herself drawn to him he confessed his fear of commitment to ... The Garfields did not honeymoon after their wedding but moved into two rented .... She intended to conduct a redecoration of the White House that would include an...
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Presidents' wives of the past | Backwoods Home Magazine  After four years in the White House, the Hayeses left and went back to Ohio. ... Next was Lucretia Garfield, the wife of James Garfield. .... And he refused to move into it until it was redecorated. .... She was the second First Lady to die in the White House and her death probably contributed more to her husband's defeat in the...
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President James Garfield dies - Sep 19, 1881 - HISTORY.com  Eighty days after a failed office seeker shot him in Washington, D.C., President James A. Garfield dies of complications from his wounds.Born in a log cabin in...
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1.9 Lion in the White House - Hanson History - Sites - Google  Feb 4, 2016 ... Historian David McCullough writes that his first and lasting ... He used the presidency as a "bully pulpit" for shaping and leading public ... He often led visiting foreign dignitaries to the White House on .... Roosevelt had already resigned from the Navy Department in answer to President McKinley's call for...
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3 Internal Monologues from Bad Days in Presidential History  Sep 30, 2011 ... Why would the White House think they needed to hire a guy to get ... got it! When I leave the presidency, I will become Chief Justice of the ... You're the president who's so fat you made a diaper out of a bathtub. ... they couldn't find any trace of the bullet, even though they got the ... [Garfield died months later.
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James A. Garfield - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  James Garfield (1831-81) was sworn in as the 20th U.S. president in March ... cabin, Garfield was a self-made man who became a school president in his mid-20s. ... His father, Abram Garfield, died less than two years later, so his mother, Eliza .... in the White House mortally wounded and near death for almost three months.
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Destroying and Saving The White House | The Saturday Evening Post  Feb 16, 2011 ... The interior was completely rebuilt, and though reconstruction began immediately, ... The White House has also reflected cultural and political changes by ... Most presidents added something to the Executive Mansion. ... That restoration took the heart out of the building. ... And called the Truman Balcony.
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Next Rebuilding the White House and U.S. Capitol  The government hired James Hoban, designer of the first President's House and now the city's leading builder, to supervise the rebuilding of the mansion and exe... ... on the White House as areas have been left unpainted after the cleaning and ... Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents...
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List of Presidents of the United States who died in office - Wikipedia  Garfield died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881. ... Garfield also lived the longest after the shooting, compared to other Presidents. Garfield was scheduled to leave Washington on July 2, 1881 for his ... mater, Williams College, where he was scheduled to deliver a speech.
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Unusual Political Career of Calvin Coolidge, Never Defeated for an ...  The second was the death in 1923 of President Harding, which placed him in the White House. His own political initiative ... On Aug. 2, 1927, he issued his famous statement: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." .... "Our country has definitely refused to adopt and ratify the covenant of the League of Nations," he said.
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Building the White House - White House Historical Association  The White House survived near destruction in the War of 1812, a major .... The family's private quarters were located on the second floor, and so were the ... For several years, the president and first lady lived at Blair House, across ... to symbolize the presidency and American leadership here in the United States and around...
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James Abram Garfield, President, U.S.A. (1831 - 1881) - Genealogy  Sep 19, 2016 ... Death: Died September 19, 1881 in Elbberon, New Jersey, United States .... Finally, on the 36th ballot, Garfield himself became the "dark horse" nominee. .... His death, two months after being shot and six months after his .... bacteria into the President's body and that caused blood poisoning for which at that...
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first ladies White House - White House Historical Association  His destination was Panama and he arrived there on November 14, 1906. ... William Howard Taft was the first president to have an official White House ... he is also one of two presidents buried in Arlington National Cemetery (John F. ... The event marks the only time that a President's son has been married in the mansion.
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Reconstructing the White House, 1948-1952 - Retronaut | historian ...  Reconstructing the White House, 1948-1952 - Retronaut | See more about The White, House and Over The. ... President James Madison pledged to restore the White House just as it was. .... In an elegant White House guest room, the 11-year-old son of Abraham and Mary ..... GET STARTED NOW CLICK THE IMAGE NOW.
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When President Obama Stays in New York, He Won't Stay at the ...  Jun 30, 2015 ... NEW YORKIt has long been tradition for the President of the United States to take up accommodations in the Waldorf-Astoria when in New...
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State funerals in the United States - Wikipedia  Hunter had the White House draped in black ribbon and ... lay in repose in the East Room at the White House on ... Lincoln was the first president to lie in state in the ... His funeral was held August 8, 1885, in New York, .... Instead, Nixon's body lay in repose in the lobby of...
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An assassination attempt threatens President Harry S. Truman - Nov ...  In the autumn of 1950, the White House was being renovated and President ... would even be in the house when they launched their attack at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. ... were political activists and members of the extremist Puerto Rican Nationalist ... Apparently unfazed by the attempt on his life, Truman kept his scheduled...
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Who was the only president not to live in the White House? - White ...  George Washington  he ended his service as chief executive in 1797 and died before the federal government moved in 1800 from Philadelphia to the village...