and opposition towards civil service reform. In 1881, President James Garfield offered Folger the position of United States Attorney General, which he declined. Later that year, he resigned from the bench to accept an appointment by President Chester Arthur to serve as Secretary of the Treasury. In 1883 he appointed Mifflin E. Bell to the Office of the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury, an agency that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. Gubernatorial race While serving as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Folger ran in 1882 for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. Death Folger died on September 4, 1884, at his home on Main Street in Geneva, NY. He was buried at Glenwood Cemetery, Geneva, at the side of his wife who had died seven years earlier. The Geneva Fire Department's C.J. Folger Hook & Ladder Co. #1 is named in his honor, as is Folger Park in Washington, D.C. In 1879 and 1880, a company of the New York Army National Guard was organized in Geneva and named the Folger Independent Corps in honor of Folger. The unit became the 34th Independent Company and served during the Spanish–American War as Company B, 3rd New York Infantry Regiment. The unit currently exists as Co. D, 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment, based in Ithaca, New York. References Political Graveyard Appointed Secretary of the Treasury, in NYT on October 28, 1881, with short bio Obit in NYT on September 5, 1884 The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 362; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) |- |- |- 1818 births 1884 deaths 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American judges United States Secretaries of the Treasury Chief Judges of the New York Court of Appeals Republican Party New York (state) state senators Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni People from Nantucket, Massachusetts Politicians from Geneva, New York Arthur administration cabinet members Stalwarts (Republican Party)