James A. Garfield was born on 19 November 1831 in Moreland Hills. The 20th President of the United States, Garfield was a classical scholar, college president and Union general who spent almost two decades in the House of Representatives. He emerged as a compromise candidate at the 1880 Republican convention and won the presidency. Only months into his term, in July 1881, he was shot at a Washington railway station by a disappointed office seeker, Charles Guiteau. He lingered for eleven weeks, and medical care that included probing the wound with unsterilized hands probably contributed to his death. The outrage over his assassination helped win passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in 1883.
Before and after
- 13 June 1831Birth of James Clerk Maxwell
- 4 July 1831Death of James Monroe
- August 1831Nat Turner's slave rebellion
- 14 November 1831Death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 19 November 1831Birth of James A. Garfield
- from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836Second voyage of HMS Beagle
- from 1832 to 1835Republic of Indian Stream
- 23 January 1832Birth of Édouard Manet
- 27 January 1832Birth of Lewis Carroll
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