James Abram Garfield at Sixteen Small 267×320 Medium 534×640 Large 854×1024 Download Tiff Original 2002×2400 | (7.0 MB) Description James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was assassinated six months after he assumed the presidency. Pictured here, Garfield is sixteen years old. Keywords age sixteen, assassination, kpotus, portrait, president of the united states Galleries Famous People: G, US Presidents Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 4) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)