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President James Abram Garfield was a unique individual and had qualities that few US presidents have or had. He was the 20th US president and was assassinated at the age of 49 by anarchist Charles Guiteau. Garfield was multi-lingual and spoke German to German immigrants. He was a profound Shakespeare scholar and he could translate ancient Greek and Latin using both hands at the same time.

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