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Presidential Assassinations | Murder for Spoils | 1
American History Tellers
Gato's Campaign Speech
Charles Gato was the secretary of state under President James Garfield in 1881. He spent hours each day meeting with men hoping to be appointed to government positions. None were more persistent than Charles Gato who had set his sights on becoming ambassador to France the day after Garfield's inauguration. On March 8th he briefly met with Garfield face-to-face managing to hand him a copy of his campaign speech with the words Paris Consulship scrawled beside his name. A few months later when Garfield named liberal Republican James Blaine as his secretary of state Gato flooded Blaine's office with letters pressing his case certain that the ambassador ship he craved would soon be in his grasp.
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