Charles J. Guiteau
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Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated 20th United States president James A. Garfield in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau 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 shot Garfield in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on September 19 from infections related to the wounds. Caught immediately after shooting Garfield, Guiteau was tried, convicted, and publicly executed by hanging on June 30, 1882.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Julius
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Freeport
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- poet
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Field of work
- law
- Image
- Charles J Guiteau.jpg
- Convicted of
- murder
- Significant event
- Assassination of James A. Garfield
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- date of death
- 1882-06-30
- Commons category
- Charles J. Guiteau
- date of birth
- 1841-09-08
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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