President Garfield was vulnerable to assassination because they used to print his schedule in the newspapers.

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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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Between Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson, no president expressed a stronger personal commitment to equal rights for black Americans than Garfield in 1881.

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Admittedly, violent attacks on prominent figures were quite frequent: one American president had been assassinated in 1865 (Lincoln) and another in 1881 (Garfield), and seven attempts were made on Queen Victoria's life before her reign ended in 1901, none of them by anarchists.

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