The Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Assassination of President Garfield
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2014
- James Garfield was not one of the top three contenders for the Repulican Candidate for President. However, following a long and drawn out Republican convention in 1880, Garfield, a former state senator and revered war general, was nominated after 36 rounds of voting, the Party's candidate for President. Garfield went on to win the popular vote by the narrowest of margins. After serving as President only a few months, President Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a mentally ill and unsuccessful applicant for a Presidential appointment. President Garfield would likely have survived the shooting, except for the unsanitary practices of his physicians who refused to believe Lister's findings regarding germs and hygiene. Garfield's assassination marked the beginning of a new era in American politics and partisanship.
Ken Ackerman is a writer and attorney living in Washington, D.C. Ackerman practices law in Washington at Olsson, Frank, Weeda Terman, & Matz PC. He served as legal counsel to two committees of the United States Senate: Governmental Affairs (1975-1981) under then-Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (1988-1993) under its then-Chairmen Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. During the administration of President Bill Clinton, he headed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (1993-2001). Earlier, he held various legal positions at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He has authored a number of books, including: "The Gold Ring", "Dark Horse", "Boss Tweed", and
"Young J. Edgar".
Really enjoyed the talk! (Sitting here in New Zealand, and enjoy finding talks/documentaries on 'lesser known' presidents of the USA)
This is a good lecture on James Garfield here.
Really interesting lecture. Thank you.
Excellent lecture, I like to throw out a funny question. Did James Garfield like lasagna? :D
at 44:05 Mr Ackerman states that Garfield was shot dead at the railway station on July 2.
He corrects this later.
Garfield died 3 months later in New Jersey of, essentially, medical malpractice.
Yaaaa the guy who they never caught! Great scholar, our speaker
What a shame that the sound recording was not done with care in the first place. Wrong mic. wrong placement.
29:30
Oh how times have changed since this video came out.
He would have been one if our best presidents.
The 1924 convention for the Democrats lasted 103 ballots, and nominated John W. Davis (who was a former Solicitor General and Ambassador to Great Britain). James Cox was the 1920 Democratic Presidential Candidate defeated by Warren Harding (Davis was defeated by Calvin Coolidge).
They also has a 3 yr old girl that died.
For some historical fiction, look into the acquisition of America's first colony, Hawai'i. Lehua, Ka'ao a ka Wahine [Lehua, the Romance of a Hawaiian Girl]
Tragically James A. Garfield died in Long Branch, N.J.