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{{President
{{Officeholder
|name=James A. Garfield
|image=James Garfield by Curtis.jpg
|image=James Garfield by Curtis.jpg
|party=[[Republican]]
|party=Republican
|spouse=Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
|spouse=Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
|religion=[[Church of Christ]]
|religion=Church of Christ
|offices=
{{Officeholder/president
|country=the United States
|number=20th
|terms=March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881
|vp=[[Chester A. Arthur]]
|preceded=[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]
|former=y
|succeeded=Chester A. Arthur
}}
{{Officeholder/representative
|state=Ohio
|district=19th
|terms=March 4, 1863 – November 8, 1880
|preceded=Albert G. Riddle
|former=y
|succeeded=Ezra B. Taylor
}}
|military=y
|allegiance=[[United States]]
|rank=[[General]]
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|serviceyears=1861–1863
}}
}}
'''James Abram Garfield''' <ref>http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jagarfield.html</ref> (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th [[President of the United States of America]], serving less than a year in office. He was assassinated by a deranged gunman, [[Charles Julius Guiteau]], who may have sought to make the Vice President, [[Chester Arthur]], the next President. Garfield was the only president to serve as a clergyman while in the White House.<ref>http://www.kencollins.com/about/about.htm</ref>
'''James Abram Garfield''' <ref>http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jagarfield.html</ref> (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th [[President of the United States of America]], serving less than a year in office. He was assassinated by a deranged gunman, [[Charles Julius Guiteau]], who may have sought to make the Vice President, [[Chester Arthur]], the next President. Garfield was the only president to serve as a clergyman while in the White House.<ref>http://www.kencollins.com/about/about.htm</ref>
Garfield suffered for weeks from the lodging of the bullet inside him, first in the White House and then at a New Jersey seaside location. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, attempted to find the internal bullet with his own invention, an induction-balance electrical device. All attempts at removing the bullet were unsuccessful, and Garfield died on September 19, 1881 from an infection and internal hemorrhage.<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jg20.html</ref> He served as President for six months and fifteen days
Garfield suffered for weeks from the lodging of the bullet inside him, first in the White House and then at a New Jersey seaside location. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, attempted to find the internal bullet with his own invention, an induction-balance electrical device. All attempts at removing the bullet were unsuccessful, and Garfield died on September 19, 1881, from an infection and internal hemorrhage.<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jg20.html</ref> He served as president for six months and fifteen days.
==Early life==
==Early life==
==Presidency==
==Presidency==
Unfortunately, the new president was unequal to the task of composing the differences in his party. For his secretary of state he chose James G. Blaine. the bitterest political enemy of Senator Roscoe Conkling (q.v.) the leader of the New York “stalwarts.” Without consulting the New York senators, Garfield appointed William H. Robertson, another political enemy of Conkling's, to the desirable post of Collector of the Port of New York, and thereby destroyed all prospects of party harmony.
[[File:Garfield shot.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The assassination of President James A. Garfield spurred the end of the [[spoils system]] and installation of a permanent [[civil service]] bureaucracy.]]
Unfortunately, the new president was unequal to the task of composing the differences in his party. For his secretary of state he chose James G. Blaine. the bitterest political enemy of Senator [[Roscoe Conkling]] (q.v.) the leader of the New York “stalwarts.” Without consulting the New York senators, Garfield appointed William H. Robertson, another political enemy of Conkling's, to the desirable post of Collector of the Port of New York, and thereby destroyed all prospects of party harmony.
===Assassination===
===Assassination===
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
In 1858 Garfield had married Miss Lucretia Rudolph, by whom he had seven children.
In 1858 Garfield had married Miss Lucretia Rudolph, by whom he had seven children.
==Quotes==
*"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
==References==
==References==
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