[246] Another monument, in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, was erected in 1896.[247] In Victoria, Australia, Cannibal Creek was renamed Garfield in his honor.[248]

Stereoscopic images of the Schofield family vault where Garfield's remains were kept until completion of his permanent memorial[249]
On May 19, 1890, Garfield's body was permanently interred, with great solemnity and fanfare, in a mausoleum in Lake View Cemetery. Attending the dedication ceremonies were former President Hayes, President Benjamin Harrison, and future president William McKinley.[250] Garfield's Treasury Secretary, William Windom, also attended.[250] Harrison said Garfield was always a "student and instructor" and that his life works and death would "continue to be instructive and inspiring incidents in American history".[251] Three panels on the monument display Garfield as a teacher, Union major general, and orator; another shows him taking the presidential oath, and a fifth shows his body lying in state at the Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.[252]
Garfield's murder by a deranged office-seeker awakened public awareness of the need for civil service reform legislation. Senator George H. Pendleton, a Democrat from Ohio, launched a reform effort that resulted in the Pendleton Act in January 1883.