The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States. Including an Account of his Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and Burial

384 pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles, black stamped decorations on spine and front board, engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved plates (including a depiction of his assassination). "James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure, at 200 days, the second shortest (after William Henry Harrison) in United States history. Before his election as president, Garfield served as a major general in the United States Army and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and as a member of the Electoral Commission of 1876. Garfield was the second U.S. President to be assassinated; Abraham Lincoln was the first. President Garfield, a Republican, had been in office a scant four months when he was shot and fatally wounded on July 2, 1881. He lived until September 19, having served for six months and fifteen days. To date, Garfield remains the only sitting member of the House of Representatives to have been elected President."