The 20th US president was James A. Garfield, who was inaugurated in 1881. He was the second US president to be assassinated, after Abraham Lincoln. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a mentally unstable lawyer who had become disillusioned with the political system and had failed to secure a government position. Garfield was hit twice at close range by Guiteau on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Despite receiving medical attention, Garfield died 11 weeks later on September 19, 1881, due to blood poisoning caused by the bullet wounds.