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James A. Garfield served as the 20th President of the United States from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881.
The second president to have been assassinated, Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guiteau, a delusional whack-job who imagined that he was owed a job in government by Garfield, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Station, in Washington, DC, on July 2, 1881. Garfield suffered 11 weeks before he finally succumbed to his wounds.
Abraham Lincoln was the first President of the United States to have been assassinated.
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The College of William & Mary, chartered in 1693, is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States—second only to Harvard University (http://www.harvard.edu), which was established in 1636. Although it’s the second-oldest college in the U.S., William & Mary isn’t without its own firsts: it was the first to receive a Royal Charter; the first U.S. college to become a university; the first law school in the U.S.
