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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. Guiteau believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles J. Guiteau has received more than 2,731,931 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles J. Guiteau is the 9,186th most popular politician (up from 9,274th in 2019), the 3,158th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,356th in 2019) and the 204th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 9,186 out of 19,576. Before him are Emma Darwin, Boris Stürmer, Leon Panetta, Regina Jonas, Diodotus I, and Rosen Plevneliev. After him are Sunifred, Count of Barcelona, Hiempsal II, Ashikaga Yoshinori, Taytu Betul, Traicho Kostov, and Baron Waqa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 42. Before him are Sam Loyd, Eugenius Warming, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Otto von Gierke, Luigi Luzzatti, and Prudente de Morais. After him are Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Wilfrid Laurier, François-Alphonse Forel, Elfrida Andrée, Józef Brandt, and Catulle Mendès. Among people deceased in 1882, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 41. Before him are Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, János Arany, John Nelson Darby, Georges Leclanché, Berthold Auerbach, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner. After him are Friedrich von Lütke, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, François-Auguste Biard, Auguste Barbier, Ferdinand Reich, and Charles Blanc.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 3,158 out of 20,380. Before him are Kathleen Kennedy (1953), Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Leon Panetta (1938), Jesse Jackson (1941), Dermot Mulroney (1963), and Keith Carradine (1949). After him are Robert Metcalfe (1946), Erin Brockovich (1960), James F. Byrnes (1882), Dana Ivey (1941), Zac Efron (1987), and Angry Grandpa (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 204. Before him are Daniel Inouye (1924), John B. Kelly Sr. (1889), Victoria Woodhull (1838), Dean Rusk (1909), Janet Jagan (1920), and Leon Panetta (1938). After him are James F. Byrnes (1882), Edith Head (1897), Garret Hobart (1844), Barry Goldwater (1909), Gall (1840), and Chuck Schumer (1950).

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