2011 Presidential Dollar Coin James Garfield Uncirculated Obverse
2011 Presidential Dollar Coin Uncirculated Reverse
The James Garfield Presidential $1 Coin honors the 20th President of the United States.
James Garfield was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. He later graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts and returned to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College) in Ohio as a classics professor and then its president. He was elected to the Ohio state senate in 1859. In 1862, he was elected to Congress and served 18 years.
At the 1880 Republican convention, Garfield won the nomination for President on the 36th ballot. On July 2, 1881, just four months into his term, an embittered attorney who had unsuccessfully sought a consular post shot the President in a Washington railroad station. He lay wounded in the White House for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried in vain to find the bullet with an electrical device he had designed. On September 6, Garfield was taken to the New Jersey seaside. For a few days he seemed to be recuperating, but on September 19, 1881, he died from an infection and internal hemorrhage.
Coinage Legislation Under President James Garfield
United States Mint Directors Appointed by President James Garfield
The obverse (heads) shows a portrait of James Garfield.
The reverse (tails) features a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty.
