But it took Garfield’s assassination to finally get a meaningful bill passed. The Pendleton Act professionalized the civil service. Among other things, the Act required that for some federal ...

Salvador "Junior" Granillo, a senior at Garfield, was killed Sunday at a house party in Yakima. Students gathered outside the ...

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

Garfield died on September 19 ... McKinley seemed to be recovering from the assassination attempt until September 12, when his health deteriorated rapidly. He died of gangrene infection.

Abraham Lincoln or the assassination of William McKinley or the assassination of James Garfield or the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford twice or the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan ...

Assassination was unnecessary. Todd Arrington, Garfield National Historic Site: The Lincoln assassination in 1865 was viewed as really an anomaly. Nobody gave much thought to the idea that a ...

Produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the Netflix show is a historical drama focused on the presidency and assassination of James Garfield, who is being played by ...

Essentially, postal route contracts were being sold in return for payoffs. Major Acts: Although he was assassinated before he could do much, James Garfield defeated his party rivals in the Senate and ...