Ruler · 1831 – 1881

James A. Garfield

Lived 1831 – 1881; statesperson, politician, writer, military personnel. President of the United States (United States), 1881.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1831 – 1881; 50 years
Lines: 1; United States
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of the United States

United States · the 21st of 48 dated reigns · 1789 – 2025

17 before

Andrew Johnson1865 – 1869

Ulysses S. Grant1869 – 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes1877 – 1881

James A. Garfield1881

Chester A. Arthur1881 – 1885

Grover Cleveland1885 – 1889

Benjamin Harrison1889 – 1893

24 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1881 · under a year · came to it aged 50

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; aneurysm; gunshot wound

the term records: death in office

In the end, these ambitious plans came to nothing after Garfield was assassinated.

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