No, he was born in Ohio, a northern state. The first southerner president after the Civil War is Woodrow Wilson.
The Assassination of President James Garfield
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The Pendleton Act, passed under President Alan Arthur, was the first step towards Civil Service reform in the US. The act was motivated, in part, by the assassination of President Garfield by a disappointed offiice seeker.
Elected President. 1861, Civil War begins. 1863
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James Garfield was elected in 1880, 15 years after the Civil War ended. He was a major general in the Civil War and his military recorded helped him get elected.
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Do you mean who was the first Democrat to be elected President after the Civil War? The Republican party dominated for many years following the Civil War. After Lincoln was assassinated, he was succeeded by Johnson, a member of the War Union Party, who was followed by Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur, who were all Republicans. Then, in 1884, Grover Cleveland was elected. He was a Democrat, and he took office in 1885.
President Garfield.
He had been a US Congressman for many years. He also had a distinguished record as a major general in the Civil War. He served as chair of the Ohio delegation at the nominating convention of 1880. After the convention became deadlocked ,somebody suggested Garfield. The bandwagon grew and Garfield was nominated. He became the only sitting Congressman to be elected President .
He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters.
The 22th (and 24th) US President was Democrat Grover Cleveland, elected in 1884 and in 1892. Although Vice President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, succeeded to the Presidency on the death of Abraham Lincoln, the next four Presidents were Republicans: Ulysses S. Grant, elected in 1868 and 1872 (18th President) Rutherford B. Hayes, elected 1876 (19th President) James Garfield, elected 1880 (20th President) Checter A. Arthur, succeeded Garfield (21st President)
He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters.
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.
Technically never. Arthur was vice-president under James Garfield, who was shot and killed in office.
Several of them. Grant, Garfield, McKinley for three.
The president during the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln.