James Garfield Broadsheet Print of His Speech Made On The First Anniversary of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Made In Congress - April 14, 1866
(JAMES A. GARFIELD) (1831 - September 19, 1881). 20th President of the United States, who’s presidency lasted just 200 days, from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, after he was shot by Assassin Charles J. Guiteau, on July 2, 1881.
April 14, 1866-Dated, Printed Broadsheet titled, "REMARKS OF HON. JAMES A. GARFIELD, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL 14, 1866. ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.," Choice Very Fine. This special Official Printed Broadsheet is historic, very rare and superbly ironic. It is 2 page (front and back), measuring 5.5” x 8.5” being the publication of James Garfield’s April 14, 1866 Memorial Speech, on the First Anniversary of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

This speech is made by the future President, who himself would later suffer the same fate! This printing does not appear to have been removed from a larger publication and was a stand-alone item. The first we have seen and offered of one future President of the United State, James Garfield’s first Anniversary “Remarks” on the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Simply an extraordinary 1866 James Garfield Printed Broadsheet of His Speech in the House of Representatives, On the First Anniversary of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - April 14, 1866.
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Postal Service. Garfield made notable ambassador and judiciary appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Garfield appointed several African Americans to prominent federal positions. Garfield, the scholar President, successfully managed a national debt crisis without having to call a special session of Congress.

Garfield was a self-made man who came from a modest background, having been raised in obscurity on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and brothers. Garfield ambitiously worked his way doing manual labor jobs to obtain and finance his education. Achieving his goal in 1856, Garfield graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican, after campaigning for the party's antislavery platform in Ohio. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and in 1860 was admitted to practice law while serving as an Ohio State Senator (1859–1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga. He was first elected to Congress in 1863 as Representative of the 19th District of Ohio.

Throughout Garfield's extended Congressional service after the Civil War, he fervently opposed the Greenback, and gained a reputation as a skilled orator. He was Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee and the Appropriations Committee and a member of the Ways and Means Committee. Garfield initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, then favored a moderate approach for civil rights enforcement for Freedmen. In 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate; in that same year, the leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their convention. Garfield became the party's compromise nominee for the 1880 Presidential Election and successfully defeated Democrat Winfield Hancock in the election.

Garfield's presidency lasted just 200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881. Only William Henry Harrison's presidency, of 32 days, was shorter. Garfield was the second of four United States Presidents who were assassinated. (From Wikipedia)