A Dramatic Death

A Biography about James A. Garfield

[James A. Garfield, our 20th President]

Facts

*Garfield had a poor family

*Garfield got married in 1858.

*Garfield got married to Lucretia Rudolph

*Garfield was the first left handed president.

*Garfield served in the House from 1863 to 1880.

*In the Civil War he was a Major General.

* Charles Guitea shoot Garfield.

*Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881.

*Doctors made his damaged body worse.

*Garfield would have survivd if the doctors left him alone.

[Lucretia Rudolph Garfield}

Biography

James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was born near Cleveland, Ohio, on November 19, 1831. James Garfield was the first left handed President. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856 and then returned to the Western Reserve Ecletic Institute in Ohio as a classics professor. In 1858 he married Lucretia Rudolph, a former classmate. Garfield was elected from Ohio in 1859 as a Republican. He was a six foot tall, large man, with light brown hair. Garfield was only in office for 200 days.Garfield's career in. Congress was from 1863 to 1880.

Garfield also had an enemy by the name of Charles Guitea. He was a lawyer who became frustrated when his application to be the US ambassador to France was denied. He was a religious man who believed that God had ordered him to kill the President. For days, others say weeks, he stalked the President Garfield until he had a chance to shoot him. James Garfield arrived at the Washington railroad depot where he was ready to depart for New Jersey on July 2, 1881,when he was seriously wounded with two shots. One bullet grazed his arm but the other one lodged itself somewhere in the president body.The President was then treated by sixteen different doctor for the next eighty days. After having an operation and a 3 inch wound, the President's heart grew weak. Garfield had a heart attack and died several minutes later. Garfield passed away on September 19, 1881.

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