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==Career==
Guiteau worked as a [[Law Clerk|clerk]] at a [[Chicago]] law firm and passed a cursory examination to attain [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admission to the bar]].<ref name=Oliver>{{cite book |last1=Oliver |first1=Willard M. |last2=Marion |first2=Nancy E. |title=Killing the President: Assassinations, Attempts, and Rumored Attempts on U.S Commanders-in-Chief |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNbn8PLx5qAC&pg=PA40 |location=Santa Barbara, California |publisher=Praeger |pages=39–40 |isbn=978-0-313-36474-7 |year=2010}}</ref> He was not successful as a lawyer; he argued only one case in court, and his client was convicted.<ref>{{cite book| title=Through the ivory gate : studies in psychology and history|last= Ireland|first= William W. | url=https://archive.org/details/throughivorygate00irel | access-date=2023-07-24 | year=1889 | publisher=G. P. Putnam | page=175}}</ref> In 1869 he met and married librarian Annie Bunn.<ref name="Oliver"/> The bulk of Guiteau's legal business was in bill collecting; she later detailed how he
In 1872, Guiteau and his wife moved to [[New York City]] one step ahead of bill collectors and dissatisfied clients.<ref name="Oliver"/> Guiteau took an interest in politics and identified with the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref name="Oliver"/> In the [[United States presidential election, 1872|1872 presidential election]], he supported [[Horace Greeley]], the [[Liberal Republican Party (United States)|Liberal Republican]] and Democratic candidate, against incumbent [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Ulysses S. Grant]].<ref name="Oliver"/> Guiteau prepared a disorganized speech in support of Greeley, which he delivered once.<ref>{{cite book |last=Block |first=Lawrence |date=2004 |title=Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/gangstersswindle00lawr/page/n121|page=102 |isbn=978-0-19-516952-2}}</ref> Greeley was badly defeated, but during the campaign Guiteau became convinced that if Greeley won, he would appoint Guiteau as [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Chile|minister (ambassador) to Chile]].<ref name="Oliver"/> Guiteau was [[physical abuse|physically abusive]] with his wife; when she wanted a divorce in 1874, he obliged by having sex with a prostitute who then testified to his [[infidelity]].<ref name="Oliver"/>
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