Which 1881 assassination ΓÇö of a president shot at a Washington train station by a disgruntled office-seeker ΓÇö led to the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act?

• A William McKinley
• B Chester A. Arthur
• C Grover Cleveland
• D James A. Garfield ✓

Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, who believed he was owed a consulship, and died 79 days later of infections from unsterilised probing of the wound by doctors.