James Garfield - Tumblr Posts
TELL ME ABT JAMES GARFIELD PLEASE!!
Wow, my first ask.
Well, not much is known about what he really would have done, because he died really early into his presidency. But from what I've gathered, his main priorities were preventing racism and improving public education. This was a point in history where there wasn't really a government body on education yet, so that was a big deal. The racism part was also a big deal, this was just after the civil war. His backstory was actually very similar to Abraham Lincoln, starting in a log cabin and working his way up. He solved some sort of math thing that was important at the time, because he was a nerd. He probably would have survived his gunshot wound, but he was friends with a doctor who was nearby at the time, and so that guy immediately took over. And that guy, Willard Bliss? It was the 19th century, so he get's a little leeway but he was behind the times already. There were several doctors jamming unwashed fingers in the wound, trying to find the bullet. They were completely wrong about where it was, so they made an entire new hole in Garfield. Alexander Graham Bell (telephone inventor) made a device to try to find the bullet, but it didn't work because Bliss refused to remove him from a metal bed. And I'm not sure how accurate the musical Assassins is to Guiteau, but he was... wow. He shot Garfield because of what he viewed as a 'betrayal,' because he wrote some op-eds in Garfield's support during the presidential race thinking it would get him an important government job. For reference, this same man had committed scams and at one point joined a commune, only to leave because despite it being free love nobody would sleep with him. I believe I saw it speculated somewhere he may have been bipolar, but still.
i was making my cats play cards against humanity and found this and thought of H I M
