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  2. Garfield High School (California) - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Garfield High School (California) 5101 E. Sixth Street. James A. Garfield High School is a year-round public high school founded in 1925 in East Los Angeles, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, California. At Garfield, 38% of students participate in advanced placement programs.

  3. James A. Garfield - Wikipedia

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    James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) 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 ...

  4. Lucretia Garfield - Wikipedia

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    Geauga Seminary. Hiram College ( BA) Signature. Lucretia Garfield ( née Rudolph; April 19, 1832 – March 14, 1918) was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, Garfield first met her husband at Geauga Seminary.

  5. Jaime Escalante - Wikipedia

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    Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

  6. Assassination of James A. Garfield - Wikipedia

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    Death by hanging. James A. Garfield. James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as ...

  7. Garfield High School (Seattle) - Wikipedia

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    Garfield High School. James A. Garfield High School is a public high school in the Seattle Public Schools district of Seattle, Washington. It is named after James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States. The school is located at 400 23rd Avenue between E. Alder and E. Jefferson Streets in the Central District section of Seattle.

  8. Stand and Deliver - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $1.6 million [1] Box office. $13.9 million [2] Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at ...

  9. James Garfield Graded School - Wikipedia

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    15000275. Added to NRHP. May 26, 2015. The James A. Garfield Graded School ( Spanish: Escuela James Garfield) is a public elementary [1] school named after the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, located in Guánica, Puerto Rico. The school was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 2015.