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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1969.80.1409
James A. Garfield
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1969.80.1409

James A. Garfield

United States, 1831 - 1881
Ohio State Senator (1859-1861)
Republican Presidential Nominee (1880)
U.S. President (1881)

From March to September 1881, James Abram Garfield served as the 20th president of the United States. Four months into his presidency, Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau. Garfield died two months later, making him the president with the second-shortest term in US history.
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