Harry Augustus Garfield
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Harry Augustus “Hal” Garfield (October 11, 1863–December 12, 1942) was a lawyer and academic, as well as the son of U.S. President James A. Garfield and the brother and law partner of U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. At the age of seventeen, his father was shot down by assassin Charles Guiteau as he and his fifteen-year-old brother, James watched in horror.
“Hal” became a law professor and eighth president of his alma mater, Williams College in Massachusetts and taught at Princeton University as well. While at Princeton, he befriended future president Woodrow Wilson, who, during World War I, asked him to serve as the nation's Fuel Administrator.
He married Belle Hartford Mason and had four children.
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- Doug Wead, All the President's Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families, Atria Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-4631-3
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