Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield,Secretary of War William Howard Taft
... James R. Garfield was appointed to the 
position of Secretary of the Interior by President ... Secretary of War .... William H. 
Taft... [DOC] [TLE] American National Biography Online: Garfield, James Rudolph [PAR] 1950), lawyer and secretary of the interior, was born in Hiram, Ohio, the son of 
James Abram Garfield, U.S. congressman and, later, twentieth president of the 
United ... Jim and his brother Harry Augustus Garfield, who served many years as 
.... and other cabinet members, such as Secretary of War William Howard Taft, 
who... [DOC] [TLE] James R. Garfield (19071909)Miller Center [PAR] Benjamin Harrison  Grover Cleveland  William McKinley  Theodore Roosevelt  
William Taft ... James R. Garfield (19071909) - Secretary of the Interior ... 
resigned his position in 1898 to volunteer in a cavalry unit in the Spanish-
American War.