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title: "What happened to President Garfield because of the patronage/spoils system?"  
description: "What happened to President Garfield because of the patronage/spoils system?"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-04-25  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41716/what-happened-to-president-garfield-because-of-the-patronage-spoils-system  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What happened to President Garfield because of the patronage/spoils system? 

What happened to President Garfield because of the patronage/[spoils system](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40754/how-are-federal-workers-generally-hired-and-fired-is-this-process-more-or-less-fair-when-compared-to-the-past-what-was-the-spoils-system)?


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