James Garfield

This engraving of President James Garfield was produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. President Garfield served as a general during the Civil War, and won reelection for 18 years as a member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Ohio. Garfield became president on March 4, 1881, but was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station on July 2, 1881, by an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post. His wound became infected, and Garfield died less than seven months after taking office, on September 19, 1881.