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Assassination of Garfield

United States · Government / Republican Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1881Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1881

Charles Guiteau2 July 1881

Potomac · Government / Republican Party Government

Charles Guiteau, failed applicant for an appointment as minister to Austria & consul-general to Paris, shoots Garfield in a railroad station, he dies 19th Sept

Charles Guiteau19 August 1881

Government / Republican Party Government

President Garfield dies from gunshot wounds fired by Charles Guiteau

Charles Guiteau1881

Government / Republican Party Government

Guiteau is found guilty of assassinating Garfield, despite his lawyers raising an insanity defense, & sentenced to death. Guiteau is found guilty of assassinating Garfield, despite his lawyers raising an insanity defense

Names involved

Charles Guiteau

Provenance

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