JAMES A. GARFIELD 1881 - 1881 1881 - City of Phoenix, Arizona
incorporates. 1881 - Gunfight at O. K. Corral in Tombstone,
Arizona. 1881 - The Women’s Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU)
organizes in Arizona and begins a long campaign against alcohol
and saloons. James A. Garfield was born in 1831 in Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, the last president to be born in a log cabin. He
served as a Major General in the Civil War, resigning in 1863,
when he was elected to the House of Lucretia Randolph Garfield
was born in 1832 in Ohio. She met James Garfield in 1851 and
they were married in 1858. They had seven children; two died in
infancy. After Garfield's military service, the family stayed
together with homes in the capitol and in While serving in the
House of Representatives, President James Garfield's oratorical
and parliamentary abilities made him the leading Republican. In
1880, he was elected to the Senate, but instead became a
presidential candidate and defeated Democrat General Hancock.
Almost four months into his p