Garfield, James A.

Cultural  

1. A Republican party political leader of the nineteenth century, who served as president in 1881. After only a few months in office, he was assassinated by a man who had been angered by not having received a public job under the spoils system. Garfield's assassination gave momentum to the drive to abandon the spoils system.

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Example Sentences

Garfield, James A., and his mother, 308; early life of, 149; grave of, 490.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Garfield, James A., first acquaintance with, 353; his early life,   354; injustice done him, 354; his intellectual gifts, 355;   assassination of, 356.

From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon