"First president from the old south since before the civil war?"
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There weren't capital cities since there were no "states" until 1789 when the Constitution was signed and Washington was the first President.
since he was the first president it was a job no one had ever done before and he had no one to follow as a guide.
to honor George Washington's birth bicentennialhe was on the quarter because he was the first president of the us and he was a famous president since he was the first one
Andrew Johnson was the first post-Civil War President from the south, but he was never elected: He assumed office upon the death of Abraham Lincoln and was never re-elected (in fact, he was nearly impeached). Harry Truman was from Missouri, which was a border state so he could possibly be considered, but the first clear-cut southern President was Lyndon Johnson (Texas). While his first term was assuming the Presidency after Kennedy's death, unlike Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Johnson was then re-elected on his own. Since then, there have been three 'Southern' Presidents - Jimmy Carter (Georgia), Bill Clinton (Arkansas), and George W Bush (Texas). George HW Bush is from Massachusetts, so wouldn't count.
Garfield was assassinated by a man who wanted to be appointed to a government job and blamed Garfield for not getting it. Garfield thus became a martyr, in a way. Since Garfield favored a reform in the way that civil service jobs were filled, you can say that he was a martyr for civil service.