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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 poet and activist who assassinated United States president James A. Garfield 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 shot Garfield in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on September 19 from infections related to the wounds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles J. Guiteau is the 175th most popular extremist (down from 145th in 2024), the 4,355th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,158th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 175 out of 283. Before him are Eugène Terre'Blanche, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Jerry Brudos, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ross Ulbricht, and Baby Face Nelson. After him are Ziad Jarrah, Stefano Delle Chiaie, Jonathan Wild, Viktor Bout, Joaquin Murrieta, and Ahmad Sa'adat.

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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 4,355 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 EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 61. Before him are Andrew Cunanan (1969), Richard Chase (1950), Nancy Spungen (1958), Jerry Brudos (1939), Ross Ulbricht (1984), and Baby Face Nelson (1908). After him are Louis Farrakhan (1933), Dean Corll (1939), Herbert Mullin (1947), Bugs Moran (1893), Carl Panzram (1892), and Patty Hearst (1954).

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