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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, president of the United States, in 1881. Guiteau falsely 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 two months 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 2,416,986 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Charles J. Guiteau is the 9,301st most popular politician (down from 8,732nd in 2019), the 3,364th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,232nd in 2019) and the 211th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 9,301 out of 15,577. Before him are Shintaro Abe, Presian I of Bulgaria, Ashot II of Armenia, Barbu Știrbey, John IV, Duke of Bavaria, and Jakaya Kikwete. After him are Anne Jules de Noailles, Louisa Adams, Guido Westerwelle, Carl Adolph Agardh, Enrique Cerezo, and Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 46. Before him are Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Józef Brandt, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Eugenius Warming, Marie Alfred Cornu, and Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales. After him are François-Alphonse Forel, Paul Wallot, Ernst Schröder, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Giovanni Sgambati, and Luigi Luzzatti. Among people deceased in 1882, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 43. Before him are Berthold Auerbach, Friedrich von Lütke, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Jørgen Moe, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, and Georges Leclanché. After him are François-Auguste Biard, John William Draper, Đuro Daničić, Charles Blanc, Carl Robert Jakobson, and Henry Cole.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 3,364 out of 18,182. Before him are George Washington Carver (1864), Sonny Landham (1941), Barbara Kruger (1945), Monte Melkonian (1957), Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963), and Kate Hudson (1979). After him are Gregory Corso (1930), Don Bluth (1937), Golden State Killer (1945), John Amos (1939), E. L. Doctorow (1931), and Milton L. Humason (1891).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Charles J. Guiteau ranks 211. Before him are George M. Dallas (1792), Jay Rockefeller (1937), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Edith Head (1897), Garret Hobart (1844), and Virginia Hall (1906). After him are Lynne Cheney (1941), Bill Nelson (1942), Leon Panetta (1938), Ross Perot (1930), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), and Michael Dukakis (1933).

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