The new limited series dramatizes the brief tenure of the 20th commander in chief, who was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a lawyer who believed he’d secured Garfield’s election Based on a True ...
I just binge-watched the Netflix series Death by Lightning. It is about President James Garfield and his assassin, Charles Guiteau. Born in 1831, Garfield was a religious man, a preacher, a lawyer, a ...
1880 Presidential Election Following nine terms in the House, Garfield was elected to the U.S. Senate by the Ohio legislature in January 1880, but he never took his seat. At the Republican National ...