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My president is James Garfield. He was born on November 19th, 1831 and died 49 years later on September 19th, 1881. He was a member of the Republican party and was the 20th president of the United States. He remained in office for just four months and but in these four months he had some great accomplishments. He regained superiority as the President over the U.S. Senate on the issue of executive appointments. Before he was assassinated, he was working on the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which stated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit. Although President Garfield didn't have any real failures, he was considered a "lost president". He was one of four Presidents who, by research, didn't do "very much work" while in office after the Civil War. President Garfield did not have any romantic scandals but he did have a political scandal. Just 200 days before being assassinated, it was brought to his attention that federal banks were stealing money on "star routes" or daily delivery routes. Garfield was assassinated before he could resolve this scandal. On July 2, 1881, he was shot by Charles Guiteau as he was just about to board a train in Washington D.C. He was not killed immediately, but he lingered until September 19th.

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