James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. His term was the second shortest in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March to September of 1881, President Garfield was in office for a total of just six months and fifteen days.

External links

• Garfield, Harding, and Arthur
• Official whitehouse.gov biography
• Inaugural Address
• Article about assassination and "treatment" by doctors
• Encarta
• AmericanPresident.org
• Raw Deal
• MathWorld: Pythagorean Theorem
• Biography from John T. Brown's Churches of Christ (1904)
• James A Garfield National Historic Site
• James A. Garfield Birthplace
• Garfield Tomb