James Garfield Monument

Title: James Garfield Monument
Creator: John Quincy Adams Ward
Date: 05/12/1887 (Dedicated)
Description: This monument to President James Garfield (1831-1881) depicts him giving a speech, gazing outward with papers in one hand. Garfield was elected in 1880, but he served only four months of his term before his assassination in a railroad station on the Mall in 1881. The Society of the Army of the Cumberland, of which Garfield had been a member, commissioned the statue in 1884. It was dedicated in May 1887.
Coverage: 1860-1889
Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. View Original.