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Harry Augustus Garfield. James A Garfield National Historic Site. Harry A. Garfield son of the president. Quick Facts. Significance: Son of President James A. Garfield. Place of Birth: Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. Date of Birth: October 11, 1863. Place of Death: Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Date of Death: December 12, 1942.
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Harry Augustus Garfield (1863-1942), the son of President James A. Garfield (1831-1881), worked in a number of civic positions throughout his lifetime. After graduating from Williams College in 1885 and studying at Columbia Law School, he spent the next twenty years practicing and teaching law. In 1908, Garfield was inducted as president of William...
To the extent possible, Garfield and his Fuel Administration embraced many of the same goals as the better-known Food Administration – to increase production, reduce hoarding and profiteering, encourage conservation, and regulate prices. Garfield faced a difficult and unenviable task. During the coal shortage of 1917-1918, communities around the na...
In December 1919, Garfield resigned his position as Fuel Administrator, and the Fuel Administration itself was disbanded shortly hereafter. Garfield’s reputation was mixed at the time of his resignation. Critics decried his seeming ineptitude and what appeared to be an expansion of power by the federal government; the United States Army, in contras...
Brief Life History of Harry Augustus. When Harry Augustus Garfield was born on 11 October 1863, in Hiram, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, President James Abram Garfield, was 31 and his mother, Lucretia Rudolph, was 31. He married Belle Hartford Mason on 14 June 1888, in Mentor, Lake, Ohio, United States.
HARRY GARFIELD, THE FUEL ADMINISTRATION, AND THE SEARCH FOR A COOPERATIVE ORDER DURING WORLD WAR I ROBERT CUFF Johns Hopkins University HARRY AUGUSTUS GARFIELD, CHAIRMAN OF THE FUEL ADMINISTRATION during World War I, is one of the least known of the major Wilsonian war administrators. This is not surprising. Garfield's jurisdiction as Fuel
Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield (October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942) was an American lawyer, academic, and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I. He was a son of President James A. Garfield.
The Harry Augustus Garfield Papers document the personal and professional activities of Harry Garfield. The collection comprises correspondence, notes, diaries, speeches, reports, clippings and ephemera. The bulk of this material was created during Garfield's tenure as Williams College President, 1908-1934 and U.S. Fuel Administrator, 1917-1919.
professor of politics at Princeton University. In 1908 Garfield was inducted as the eighth president of Williams. College. Garfield served as chairman of the Price Committee of the U.S. Food Administration in 1917 and took a leave of absence from 1917-1919. to serve as fuel administrator of the U.S. Fuel Administration,
