President James Garfield was shot and seriously wounded in the summer of eighteen eighty-one.

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James Garfield became president of the United States on March fourth,eighteen eighty-one.

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If James Garfield died, Chester Arthur would become president.

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Representative James Garfield, who later became president, called a graduated tax unconstitutional.

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Something of an inconsequential place, its best claim to fame is that the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, went to school there.

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