On this day, July 2, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau shot and fatally wounded President Garfield.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Sat Jul 2, 2022: On this day, July 2, 1881, President Garfield was shot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2

• 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).

James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (1831–1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March to September 1881. On July 2, 1881, four months into his presidency, Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed and delusional office seeker. Garfield died two months later from infections caused by his doctors. He remains the only sitting member of the United States House of Representatives to be elected to the presidency.

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There's a plaque at that site now.

[moonscape]

1. Just saw an interview with

the author of _President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier_ on Amanpour and Company. Sounds like an interesting biography about a man I know too little about.

[PJMcK]

2. Stephen Sondheim's Assassins

He wrote a musical about people who tried to kill presidents. This clip is about Guiteau.

https://m.

&pp=ygUQU29uZGhlaW0gZ3VpdGVhdQ%3D%3D

[Doc Sportello]

3. Garfield would have been a great president

I think that is what most historians believe.