After one of the closest elections in history, 4,449,053 votes to 4,442,035 votes, James A. Garfield was elected President of the United States in 1881. This was the peak of a long political career, consisting of more than twenty years in congress and the senate This account follows his career from a teenage sailor who nearly drowned 14 times, to becoming the most powerful man in the nation.
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