What US presidents were assassinated while in office?”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, is one of the most recognizable presidents in history. We think of him as a lanky man in a stovepipe hat, freeing the country from slavery and delivering the Gettysburg address. But there is so much more. He was born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky where Indians had killed his grandfather. Lincoln grew up poor, laboring on a farm and had a very rocky road to the Senate and then the White House. By the time of his inauguration in March 1861, seven states had seceded from the Union. The next month, the Civil War began. Lincoln endorsed racial freedom, not just by abolishing slavery, but by a proclamation on Jan 1, 1863, to accept blacks into the army. Lincoln changed the racial future of the US, but was shot for his efforts by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theater in Washington. He died at 7:22 the next morning. James A Garfield, a lifelong Republican, was the 20th president of the US. He took office in 1881 and
