James A. Garfield
1831 CE–1881 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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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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- Manuelito (Hastiin Ch'il Haajiní)· 1818 CE–1893 CE
- Ouray· 1833 CE–1880 CE
- Cetshwayo· 1826 CE–1884 CE
- Rutherford B. Hayes· 1822 CE–1893 CE
- Chester A. Arthur· 1829 CE–1886 CE
- Pedro II of Brazil· 1825 CE–1891 CE
- William Gladstone· 1809 CE–1898 CE
- Ulysses S. Grant· 1822 CE–1885 CE
- Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó)· 1840 CE–1877 CE
- Abdulaziz· 1830 CE–1876 CE
- Lobengula· –1894 CE
- Washakie· 1804 CE–1900 CE
- Queen Victoria· 1819 CE–1901 CE
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