At 2:15 AM, John R. Brady, a New York Supreme Court justice, swore Arthur in as the twenty-first president of the United States, making him the second president to be sworn in in New York City.

In 1880, James Garfield traveled to Republican party headquarters in New York, a trip which culminated in an address to 50,000 people gathered in Madison Square Park.

James Garfield: A Look Ahead ... If the Republican majority in New York had been twenty-five hundred, instead of twenty-five thousand, ...

Motivated by family, work, a love for their new country and more, 24 immigrants came to Mentor’s James A. Garfield National Historic Site on July 1 to take the Oath of Allegiance and become U… ...