Although Garfield followed tradition by not campaigning in the modern sense, he delivered speeches at his house in Ohio during the so-called “Front Porch Campaign.” Challenges: Rivalries within the ...
On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man wearing a black slouch hat and a tattered dark suit crept up behind President James ... killing Garfield he would heal a split in the Republican Party over ...
In 1880, James Garfield traveled to Republican party headquarters in New York for a meeting with the leader of the Stalwart faction of the party, Roscoe Conkling. Garfield’s trip culminated in ...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/presidents-unity-garfield/ Factions in the Republican party were breeding corruption, so Garfield worked to ...