BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED President-Nominee JAMES A. GARFIELD Sends Autograph (1880) OH for Sale

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BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED President-Nominee JAMES A. GARFIELD Sends Autograph (1880) OH For Sale

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BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED President-Nominee JAMES A. GARFIELD Sends Autograph (1880) OH:
$600.00

Offered here is a brief 1p. ALS, 5\" x 6\", dated Mentor, Ohio, July 15, 1880, sent to Charles A. Jones, complying with his request for an autograph, signed J. A. Garfield. Letter has been framed with a 19th c. engraving of Garfield and a brass plaque, to an overall size of 21 1/2\" x 25 1/2\".Folds/ light toning to edge of letter (probably mounting traces on verso); framed with a 19th engraving of Garfield (some toning to two edges (from tape on verso?) and brass plaque; very minor wear to the fine frame. JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD (1831 – 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death the following September after being shot by an assassin in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before his candidacy for the presidency, he had been elected to the U.S. Senate by the Ohio General Assembly—a position he declined when he became president-elect. On July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station, an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post shot the President. Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in the White House for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried unsuccessfully to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed. On September 6, Garfield was taken to the New Jersey seaside. For a few days he seemed to be recuperating, but on September 19, 1881, he died from an infection and internal hemorrhage.