James A. Garfield
20th President
Born: 1831 Died: 1881 Served: 1881 - 1881

Vice-President Chester A. Arthur
Political Party Republican
College Williams
Occupation Lawyer
Birthplace Orange, Ohio
Place of Burial Cleveland, Ohio

Pop Quiz Facts

* 1881: Eleven weeks after being shot by Charles Guiteau, he dies in Elberon, N.J.

Interesting Facts

* The last of seven presidents to be born in a log cabin.
* His mother was the first president's mother to attend her son's inauguration.
* After Garfield's shooting, repeated probing for the bullet with non-sterile instruments resulted in blood poisoning, which eventually killed him.

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