But it took Garfield’s assassination to finally get a meaningful bill passed. The Pendleton Act professionalized the civil service. Among other things, the Act required that for some federal ...

I cannot watch a national convention without thinking about our 20 th president, James Abram Garfield ... and rambled in an ...

Abraham Lincoln or the assassination of William McKinley or the assassination of James Garfield or the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford twice or the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan ...

Produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the Netflix show is a historical drama focused on the presidency and assassination of James Garfield, who is being played by ...

Rutherford B. Hayes declined to run again, so the Republicans turned to James Garfield, who was attractive, eloquent, and untainted by scandals. Although Garfield followed tradition by not campaigning ...

James A. Garfield was the 20 th president of the United States, from the date of his inauguration in March 1881 until his passing in September of that year, a result of being shot a little more ...

How do we know that America is one of the world's leading gun-loving nations? Consider: four of our sitting presidents (nearly one-in-ten) have been killed by gun-wielding assassins. Abraham Lincoln ...