![]() ![]() ![]() But his speech was so good that at one point during it, when he uttered “What do we want?” someone shouted, “Garfield!” and people started essentially writing him in to vote for him. ![]() Millard: “Garfield never had what he called ‘Presidential fever.'” He traveled to the Republican convention in 1880 to give the nominating address for someone else. And by the time he was 26, he was the university President. By the second year, he was made a professor of literature and ancient languages. His first year at college, he was a carpenter and a janitor. Author Candice Millard tells a story of President Garfield’s inspiring life and tragic death – and why it was, in fact, a preventable infection and not an assassin’s bullet that actually killed him.Īccording to Millard, Garfield was a brilliant man who was born into extreme poverty and ended up putting himself through college. A team of surgeons, and even Alexander Graham Bell, could not save him. Four months after President James Garfield took office, an insane officer seeker named Charles Guiteau shot him twice with a pistol. ![]()
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