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James
Garfield - 20th President
Party: Republican
Term: March 4, 1881 - September 19, 1881
Age at Inauguration: 49
Life Span: Nov 19, 1831 - Sept 19, 1881 [49]
Spouse: Lucretia Rudolph - Age at
Marriage: 26
Vice President: Chester Arthur |
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- James Garfield fell victim to an assassin's
bullet on July 2, 1881, just four months into his term of office
Presidential Assassinations
- Wounded at the Baltimore and Potomac
railway station while on his way to attend a class reunion, he
survived eighty days before he died on September 19, 1881
- The assassin, identified as Julius
Guiteau, a disgruntled office seeker, was convicted and hanged
while in jail in Washington on June 30, 1882
- Garfield spoke Greek, Latin and German
- At a campaign rally in Ohio he greeted
a group of German-Americans in their native tongue
- The President is credited with the
ability to write Greek and Latin simultaneously from each hand.
- Although Garfield won the electoral
vote by a margin of 214 to 155, he was awarded the popular vote
by less than ten thousand, 4,454,416 to 4,444,952
- He remains the only Evangelist elected
president.
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