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James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield

1831 CE1881 CE · Washington, D.C.

James A. Garfield was the 20th President, taking office in March 1881 as a Republican. A Civil War general and longtime congressman from Ohio, he was shot by an assailant about four months into his term and died in September 1881. His assassination spurred momentum for civil service reform, realized under his successor Chester A. Arthur.

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About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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