james garfield

     

1881:<br />Charles Guiteau

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  • Woodrow Wilson,Dwight D. Eisenhower,James Garfield
  • At the shooting, his assassin cried, "I am a stalwart & Arthur is president now!"
  • This president's architect son Abram worked in Cleveland in a building named for his slain father
  • Shot within 4 months /Soon, civil service reform /Guiteau got his gun
  • This man with a reddish-brown mustache & beard served only 199 days of his term
  • In 1882 a religious fanatic named Charles Guiteau was hanged for the murder of this man
  • In 1881 Stanley Matthews failed under Hayes but was confirmed under this doomed president
  • Alexander Graham Bell was called in several times to use his metal detector to find the bullet in this president's body
  • Chester A. Arthur
  • In 1880 Lawnfield, his Ohio home, was the site of the first successful "front porch" campaign

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