POTUS 20: Pres. James Garfield

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President James A. Garfield, (POTUS 20) is another short-timer, whose Presidency ran from March 1881 - September 1881. His term in office ran about 200 days. He was shot by a deranged lawyer, but survived; he was finally killed, 80 days later, by his team of doctors.

We mainly remember him today as one of the assasinated Presidents. His assassin, attorney Charles Guiteau believed that God had ordered him to kill the President. Guiteau stalked the President for weeks, and passed up one opportunity to shoot Garfield because his wife was present.

He was the first left-handed President. He sometimes entertained friends by writing Latin with one hand and Greek with the other (woah!). He was the last president born in a log cabin.
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