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Charles J. Guiteau

1841 - 1882

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Charles Julius Guiteau ( ghih-TOH; September 8, 1841 – June 30, 1882) was an American man who assassinated James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, in 1881. A mentally ill failed lawyer, Guiteau delusionally believed that he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau felt frustrated and offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris to such a degree that he decided to kill Garfield and shot him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Garfield died 79 days later from infections related to the wounds. In January 1882, Guiteau was sentenced to death for the crime and was hanged five months later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles J. Guiteau is the 10,960th most popular politician (down from 9,185th in 2019), the 4,354th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,158th in 2019) and the 372nd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 10,960 out of 19,576. Before him are Ismail II of Granada, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland, Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha, Mir Jafar, and Azem Galica. After him are Michael Sata, Obelerio degli Antenori, Aznar Galíndez II, Eloy Alfaro, Harriet Lane, and José Miguel Gómez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 57. Before him are Wilfrid Laurier, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Giovanni Sgambati, Catulle Mendès, Vasily Klyuchevsky, and Princess Marie of the Netherlands. After him are Carl Robert Jakobson, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Laza Kostić, Eugen Dücker, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. Among people deceased in 1882, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 50. Before him are John Scott Russell, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Ferdinand Reich, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Thomas Romney Robinson, and Friedrich von Lütke. After him are Carl Robert Jakobson, Giovanni Lanza, John William Draper, Joseph Decaisne, Alexander Gardner, and James Challis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 4,354 out of 20,380. Before him are Anthony Delon (1964), Scotty Moore (1931), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Barbara O'Neil (1910), and Carlos Lopes (1947). After him are Harriet Lane (1830), Pharrell Williams (1973), Wayne Knight (1955), Barbara Babcock (1937), Rue McClanahan (1934), and Tyga (1989).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 372. Before him are Paula Hawkins (1927), John W. McCormack (1891), Ross Perot (1930), Peter T. King (1944), Kelly Craft (1962), and Andrew Yang (1975). After him are Harriet Lane (1830), Robert Lansing (1864), Abigail Fillmore (1798), Gavin Newsom (1967), Stacey Abrams (1973), and Fritz Hollings (1922).

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