Garfield's assassination came first. The Pendleton Act was largely a response to the assassination .
The Pendleton Act, passed under President Alan Arthur, was the first step towards Civil Service reform in the US. The act was motivated, in part, by the assassination of President Garfield by a disappointed offiice seeker.
President Garfield's first name is James.
James Garfield was the first president to make a call on a?
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 - November 18, 1886) was the 21st President of the United States (1881-85); he succeeded James Garfield upon the latter's assassination.
Andrew Johnson being the first person to be president after Lincolns assassination
In 1867, President Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President assasinated.
James A. Garfield was the twentieth president of the US, and the second shortest term president. Garfield was shot four months into his term, and died two months later.
No. Abraham Lincoln was.
No, James Garfield was. Abraham Lincoln was the first; James Garfield was the second; William McKinley was the third; and John F. Kennedy was the fourth.
Garfield was the first. He was president of the Eclectic Institute in Hiram , Ohio for a few years .
James Garfield
President James Garfield