About James Rudolph Garfield
James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865 – March 24, 1950) was an American lawyer and politician. Garfield was a son of the 20th President of the United States James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. He served as Secretary of the Interior during President Theodore Roosevelt's administration. == Early life == Garfield was born in Hiram, Ohio, on October 17, 1865, the third of seven children born to James Abram and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. In 1876 the family moved to what is now the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio. For a year prior to his father's presidency, he studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. On July 2, 1881, at the age of 15, he and his 17-year-old brother, Harry Augustus Garfield, witnessed the shooting of their father by disgruntled office-seeker Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station in Washington. The President and his sons were waiting for a train en route to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where young James had been recently accepted, when the shooting took place. The president died from infections related to his wounds, two months later.
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