American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831-September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, 1881-81, being assassinated after serving only four months. He was the fourth President to die in office. He had been elected U.S. Senator, 1880, but declined to serve as he was nominated to run for President. He was a U.S. Representative, 1863-80, taking the position at the request of Abraham Lincoln; House Minority Leader, 1876; Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, 1871; Republican Chairman; Major General in the Union Army, 1863, fighting the Confederate forces at Chickamauga; Brigadier General, commanding brigade at Shiloh, 1862;...

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822-January, 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States, 1877-81; Governor of Ohio, 1868- 72, 1876-77; U.S. Representative, 1864-67; Brigadier General during the Civil War, 1864; Lieutenant Colonel, 1861, wounded in the Battle of South Mountain, 1862; Major in the 23rd Ohio Volunteers, 1861; City Solicitor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858-61; delegate to the Ohio Republican Convention, 1855; married Lucy Ware Webb, 1852; graduated from Harvard Law School and admitted to bar, 1845; and graduated from Kenyon College, Ohio, 1842. Rutherford B. Hayes requested that his Presidential Inauguration be moved to Monday, March 5, rather than...

Ulysses Simpson Grant (April 27, 1822-July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of United States, 1869-77. He was Secretary of War under Andrew Johnson, 1867; Union General-in-Chief during the Civil War, receiving General Robert E. Lee's surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, April 9, 1865; defeated the Confederate forces in the Wilderness Campaign, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg, 1864-65; Major General, winning victories at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, 1863; Brigadier General, capturing Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, 1862. He had beem a Colonel of the 21st Illinois Volunteers, 1861; farmer, real estate dealer, clerk in Missouri and...

Maryland Constitution (1810) Amendment proposed by Act of 1809: <CHAPTER 167. It shall not be lawful for the General Assembly of this State to lay an equal and general Tax, or any other Tax, on the people of this State, for the support of any religion.> 1810MD001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1810MD001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Maryland Constitution, 1810, Amendment proposed by Act of 1809, Chapter 167.

Cassius Marcellus Clay (October 19, 1810-July 22, 1903) was an American abolitionist, statesman and politician. He served as a diplomat to Russia under both President Lincoln and President Grant, 1861-62, 1863-69. A strong opponent of slavery, he founded the anti-slavery journal True American, in Lexington, Kentucky, 1845. In 1854, he help found the Republican party. Cassius Marcellus Clay stated: <The Bible, the record of Divine Revelation, is the one Book of religion and morals. Of all religious systems the Christian is most in unison with the law of God and the needs of man. The spirit of God inspires all...