James Garfield Monument This monument to <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/111">President James Garfield</a> (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 <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/347">assassination</a> in a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/42">railroad station</a> 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. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=John+Quincy+Adams+Ward">John Quincy Adams Ward</a> Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0811.photos.042787p/">View Original</a>. 05/12/1887 (Dedicated) <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1860-1889">1860-1889</a>