SEPTEMBER 19, 1881 -- DEATH OF PRESIDENT JAMES GARFIELD (R, OHIO)

SEPTEMBER 19

1881 -- DEATH OF PRESIDENT JAMES GARFIELD (R, OHIO)
"Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate." A few weeks after making this statement, Garfield was shot. He died two months later.