President James Garfield Coin Release
Today the fourth and last Presidential coin of 2011 will be released. Since 2007, the U.S. Mint has been releasing four $1 presidential coins a year, starting with George Washington. Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and today, James Garfield were honored in 2011.
Garfield, a native of Ohio, and graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts, was elected to Congress in 1862 and served 18 years before being elected the 20th President of the United States in 1880. On July 2, 1881, just four months into Garfield’s term, Charles J. Guiteau shot President Garfield at a Washington railroad station. Because the bullet could never be found, Garfield fought off infection for months. On September 19, 1881, President Garfield died of an internal infection and hemorrhage.
Garfield’s coin has a picture of him on the front side, with his years as President marked underneath. Like all of the Presidential $1 coins, the reverse side has a picture of the Statue of Liberty.
Learn more about President Garfield and the other Presidential coins.
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