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Definition of President Garfield

1. Noun. 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881).

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Literary usage of President Garfield

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1881)
"... EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES. the Committee on the Assassination of President Garfield, reported a preamble and resolutions. ..."

2. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"President Garfield in his inaugural address promised full and equal protection of the Constitution and the laws for the negro, advocated universal education ..."

3. Ten Years in Washington: Or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital by Mary Clemmer (1882)
"Inauguration of President Garfield—Kissing His Venerable Mother—Chief Magistrate of Fifty Million People—Illness of Mrs. President Garfield— Tender ..."

4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"... seem to have been rather that belonging to membership in a party or a community, than to individual affection. The'dateof President Garfield'sdeath ..."

5. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"He was brought to trial and found guilty of murder in January, 1882, and was executed June 30. ON THE DEATH OF President Garfield ..."

6. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Isaac Franklin Russell, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association (1881)
"... opened the session with appropriate reading of the Scriptures and prayer for President Garfield and the country. A resolution offered by Rev. ..."

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