Garfield, James A., 20th President Autograph Letter signed ("J. A. Garfield"), as Congressman from Ohio, toEzra Booth Taylor of Warren, Ohio, acknowledging the receipt of $500 Washington. D.C, 21 november, 1869 Garfield was elected to Congress by Ohioans in 1862, and at the urging of President Lincoln, resigned his commission in the Army in order to serve in office. He became one of the leading Republicans in the House, eventually receiving the nomination of his party for the Presidential election of 1880. Only a few months after taking office (having resigned from the House), he was assassinated in 1881 by an irate office-seeker. Ezra B. Taylor, a Republican lawyer and judge from Garfield's home state of Ohio, was elected Republican Representative to the 46th Congress to fill the vacancy created by Garfield's resignation to seek the Presidency; Taylor served several terms in Congress thereafter. In this letter to Taylor, Garfield writes: "Your favor of the 18th, inclosing a draft ... for Five Hundred Dollars, is just received and I have endorsed the amount on your note. It comes just in time to aid me in a hard pinch ... I have obtained a loan which will tide me over for the present ..." Garfield pens an intriguing Postscript: "I think it was right that the P.M. at Ravenna [Ohio] should be allowed a check line - & am glad to have been able to secure the allowance for E.T.E" 4to. One page, in ink, on letterhead of the House of Representatives. Fine Price: USD 1,250.00 other currencies   order no. 217618    inquire

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