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![]() ![]() For two months, doctors and scientists, including Alexander Graham Bell, searched for a bullet that was lodged in his body. Unlike Lincoln, Garfield did not die immediately. Garfield’s assassination occurred less than twenty years after Abraham Lincoln’s death and threw the country into a tailspin. But Garfield’s promising presidential term ended one hundred days after his inauguration, when he was shot twice by a delusional and disgruntled aspiring politician. In 1880, Garfield was elected president with an agenda focused on civil service reform, educational reform, and civil rights. “He was just incredibly promising, and I truly believe he would have been one of our great presidents had he not been killed.”Ī gifted intellectual, military officer, ordained minister, and lawyer, Garfield entered politics after the Civil War as a member of the Radical wing of the Republican party advocating for sweeping Southern reform during Reconstruction and constitutional rights for enslaved people. ![]() He was instrumental in bringing about Black suffrage,” author Candice Millard said of the 20th President of the United States James A. Was incredibly brilliant, incredibly brave. “This is a guy very few people know anything about-he was absolutely extraordinary. ![]()
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