Perpetrator
Charles J. Guiteau
- Born
- 8 September 1841
- Died
- 30 June 1882, aged about 41
- Record
- Wikidata Q364232 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Assassination of James Garfield
Failed lawyer and preacher who believed Garfield owed him a consulship; convicted of murder and hanged.
1881–1882 · Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D.C. · Executed
A disappointed office-seeker shoots President Garfield in a Washington railway station in 1881. The doctors' probing may have done the rest. Read the case.
Dated events
Guiteau arrives in Washington, the day after Garfield's inauguration, to seek a consulship.
Secretary of State Blaine tells Guiteau never to raise the Paris consulship with him again.
Guiteau shoots Garfield twice in the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac station and is arrested at once.
Guiteau is indicted for murder.
The jury finds Guiteau guilty of murder.
Guiteau is hanged at the District of Columbia jail.