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FULL NAME:
James Rudolph Garfield

BORN:
October 17, 1865;
Hiram, Ohio

DIED:
March 24, 1950 (age 84);
Cleveland, Ohio

EDUCATION:
Williams College (BA, 1885)
Attended Columbia University Law School (1886-1888)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican,
Progressive (1912-1914)

HIGHLIGHTS:
1888:
Established Law Firm of Garfield & Garfield in Cleveland Ohio with brother, Harry A. Garfield
1896-1899:
Member, Ohio State Senate
1902-1903:
Commissioner, U.S. Civil Service Commission
1902-1909:
Member, President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Tennis Cabinet”
1903-1907:
Commissioner of Corporations, United States Department of Commerce and Labor
1904-1907:
Investigated meat packing industry, petroleum industry, steel industry and railroads
1907-1909:
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
1909:
Resumed Practicing Law
1914:
Unsuccessful Progressive Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

RESOURCES:

James Rudolph Garfield (son of President James Abram Garfield), President Theodore Roosevelt, and industrialist Arthur L. Garford. (Source: Bain News Service/ Library of Congress Collection, ca. 1910-1915)

Papers (Library of Congress)
UVA Miller Center
Wikipedia

JAMES R. GARFIELD

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