This portrait of President James Garfield was taken by Napoleon Sarony. Garfield was president for nearly four months before being shot by Charles Guiteau in a Washington D.C., train station on July 2, 1881. He succumbed to his wounds 11 weeks later. Sarony was a popular photographer known for his portraits of famous 19th century luminaries such as Mark Twain, Nicola Tesla, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and Sarah Bernhardt.