A Washington exhibit on the killing of U.S. President James Garfield opened 125 years after he was shot and is due to close 125 years after his death. Charles Julius Guiteau (pronounced ...

From The Daily Astorian, July 4, 1882: • Guiteau’s body was buried last Saturday afternoon, in the northeast corner of the Washington, D.C., jail yard. It is thought that will be the final ...

The Deadly Story of the U.S. Civil Service : Throughline When James Garfield won the Presidency in 1880, Charles Guiteau got ready to accept his new government job. No one had actually offered him ...

On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was shot at a railroad station in Washington by Charles Guiteau — a disgruntled office seeker. Guiteau claimed to have been promised a patronage job and ...