The closest thing to a fun fact about James Garfield is that he remains the only person elected president as a sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and he never even wanted the job to begin with.

As a nine-term congressman from Ohio, Garfield attended the Republican National Convention in 1880 to nominate another man as the party’s presidential candidate and made such a stirring speech that he returned home as the nominee himself.

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