You should put some Bactine on that President #20, C-SPAN Historians ranking #28 James Garfield served as President from March 4 through September 19, 1881, the second shortest tenure of any person to hold the office. Garfield’s assassination was tragic, although the most tragic part was not the violence perpetrated by Charles Guiteau, but rather [...]
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