March 4, 1881- September 19, 1881

Wife - Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918)

Vice-President Chester A. Arthur (1881)

The supremacy of the nation and its laws should be no longer a subject of debate. The will of the nation, speaking with the voice of battle and through the amended Constitution, has fulfilled the great promise of 1776 by proclaiming "liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof."
-- Inaugural Address (March 1881)

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