James A. Garfield was born in Orange Township, Ohio on November 19, 1831.
President Garfield was the last of seven Presidents born in a log cabin.
James A. Garfield served as an officer in the Civil War.
Garfield was the only man in U.S. history who was a congressman, senator-elect, and a president-elect at the same time.
He campaigned for the presidency from the front porch of his house.
James A. Garfield won election by less than10,000 votes.
His mother, Eliza Ballou Garfield, was the first mother of a president to live in the executive mansion. She was also the first mother to attend the Presidential Inauguration.
President Garfield was the first President to review an inaugural parade in front of the White House.
Lincoln's son, Robert Todd, was Garfield's secretary of war.
Garfield was the first left-handed president.
James had a dog named Veto.
Garfield died of blood poisoning, from doctors probing one of his wounds with bare fingers and unsterilized instruments
It took Garfield 11 weeks to die after being shot by assassin Charles Guiteau on July 2, 1881. He died on September 19, 1881 in Elberon, New Jersey. He was 49 years and 304 days old.
James A. Garfield is one of four Presidents who was assassinated.
He was the second President to be assassinnated.
James Garfield Vice President was Chester Arthur (1881) who became President after his death.
