1880 Republican National Convention
The 1880 Republican National Convention convened from June 2 to June 8, 1880, at the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Delegates nominated James A. Garfield of Ohio and Chester A. Arthur of New York as the official Republican Party candidates for president and vice president in the 1880 presidential election.
A photograph of President Ulysses S. Grant circa 1880
James G. Blaine during the 1870s
A photograph of John Sherman taken while he was the United States Secretary of the Treasury
James A. Garfield as brigadier general during the Civil War
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death the following September after being shot by an assassin in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before his candidacy for the presidency, he had been elected to the U.S. Senate by the Ohio General Assembly—a position he declined when he became president-elect.
Garfield in 1881
Replica of the log cabin in Moreland Hills, Ohio, where Garfield was born
Garfield at age 16
Lucretia Garfield in the 1870s