Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

But James Garfield, before being elected president, had a busy political career that often kept him from home. "It is a pity," he once wrote, "That I have so little time to devote to my children." ...

PANGUITCH — The Garfield County Commission has voted against ... "Pioneers should never be canceled out by any politician," Burr's great-granddaughter Brenda Baird said at the meeting.

It appears that most of the shots are taken during Garfield's inauguration and the celebration thereafter as other political figures congratulate him and his wife, Lucretia (Betty Gilpin), joins ...

Arthur Garfield Hays was co-founder and general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He and argued that the fear of communists in government was exaggerated and threatened civil ...