Garfield Collection

The President James A. Garfield Collection

wpdc8ed29f_05_06

Your visit will help to honor the memory of President James A. Garfield, arguably the most brilliant, versatile, and ethical U.S. president. Garfield had previously been a college president and professor, trial attorney before the U.S. Supreme Court, Civil War general, and a liberal Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. His tragic martyrdom cut short a presidency of progress and bipartisan cooperation.

Only Lawnfield, President Garfield's home in Ohio, has a collection to rival this one. Here you will see books, prints, photographs, statuary, and commercial products commemorating him. And only at the JHSH will you find:

* The only known business card of a presidential assassin;

* An unauthorized full-color clothing store advertisement featuring President Garfield and his entire cabinet;

* Original artwork, showing the President with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, created expressly for the JHSH by noted artist Rick Geary, author of the Garfield biography The Fatal Bullet.