Garfield, James A.

A Republican party political leader of the nineteenth century, who served as president in 1881. After only a few months in office, he was assassinated by a man who had been angered by not having received a public job under the spoils system . Garfield's assassination gave momentum to the drive to abandon the spoils system.

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Johnny Cash – “Mister Garfield” James A. Garfield tends to get lost to history, and when he’s mentioned at all, it’s because of his assassination.

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The real Garfield — James A. Garfield — was a U.S. president killed by an assassin, 16 years after the shooting of Abraham Lincoln.

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Garfield, James A., assassination, 294, 306.

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Garfield, James A., on electoral commission, 180; defeated for speaker, 181, 184; quoted, 185; in convention of 1880, 187; nominates Sherman, 1880, 192; is himself selected, 193; biographical sketch, 193; inaugurated, 196; assassinated, 197; his cabinet, 301.

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Garfield, James A., and his mother, 308; early life of, 149; grave of, 490.

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