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2 days ago · Garfield’s shooter Charles J. Guiteau was a sworn enemy of Administration Secretary of State (and—as historian Anton Chaitkin puts it— de facto Prime Minister! 18) James G. Blaine immediately after failing to obtain from the latter the job of Consul to Paris, 19 writing to the president on May 23, 1881: 20
2 days ago · Assassinated: James Garfield (1881) James Garfield, the 20th President, served only a few months before being shot on July 2, 1881, by Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau, a disgruntled office seeker, was upset after being denied a government job. Believing Garfield’s death would unite the Republican Party’s divided factions, he fired two shots at ...
1 day ago · Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.He was the first Democrat to win the presidency after the Civil War and was one of two Democratic presidents, followed by Woodrow Wilson, in an era when Republicans dominated the presidency between 1869 and 1933.
5 days ago · President Garfield spent a little over 6 months in office before dying exactly 2 months before his 50th birthday from complications of a gunshot wound on September 19, 1881. This wound was the result of an assasination attempt by a rejected federal office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau.
2 days ago · Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857.A northern Democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity, he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.
2 days ago · Rutherford Birchard Hayes (/ ˈrʌðərfərd / ⓘ; October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. As an attorney in Ohio, Hayes served as Cincinnati 's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861. He was a moderate abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings, but removed the ...
4 days ago · Answer: Vernon Jordan Jordan was shot in an assassination attempt on May 29, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 9. Which of the following U.S. Presidents was shot in the left lung and survived? Answer: Ronald Reagan Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981. Three others were also wounded including James Brady.
