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	Chester Alan Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chester was buried next to Ellen in the Arthur family plot in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Albany, New York, in a large sarcophagus on a large corner plot that contains the graves of many of his family members and ancestors.
		Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829–November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the twenty-first President of the United States.
		Arthur was born in the town of Fairfield in Franklin County, Vermont, on October 5, 1829, although he sometimes claimed to be born in 1830).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chester_Alan_Arthur (1595 words)

	President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site - www.HistoricVermont.org
		Chester A. Arthur was buried in Albany, New York, in the family plot at the Rural Cemetery.
		Chester Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in the temporary parsonage.
		Chester A. Arthur was admitted to the New York bar in May 1854 and distinguished himself as a champion of civil rights for blacks.
	www.dhca.state.vt.us /HistoricSites/html/arthur2.html (1373 words)

	MSN Encarta - Chester Arthur
		Arthur took on considerable responsibility, however, at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
		Arthur was born on October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont.
		Arthur was sworn in as vice president on March 4, 1881.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568937/Chester_Arthur.html (1162 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Chester Alan Arthur, 21st president of the United States (1881–85), succeeded to the presidency on the death of James A. Garfield on Sept. 19, 1881.
		Arthur was born in North Fairfield, Vt., on Oct. 5, 1829, the son of a Baptist clergyman and schoolteacher.
		Arthur became an aide to Edwin D. Morgan in Morgan's successful gubernatorial campaign of 1860 and was appointed the state's engineer-in-chief.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0017620-0&templatename=/article/article.html (763 words)

	21st President, Chester Alan Arthur
		Chester Alan Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont.
		Arthur made a name for himself as the lawyer who defended a black woman named Lizzie Jennings who was thrown off a streetcar in Brooklyn.
		Arthur died a year before Arthur became President; later, at the White House, his sister acted and performed the duties of First Lady.
	www.presidentialpetmuseum.com /presidents/21CA.htm (277 words)

	Vermont History: Chester A. Arthur
		The son of Malvina Arthur and the Reverend Chester A. Arthur portrait William Arthur, a passionate abolitionist, young Chester and his family migrated from one Baptist parish to another in Vermont and New York.
		Arthur's public profile was advanced in the firm's defense of Elizabeth Jennings, a black woman who had been forced out of the white section of a Brooklyn street car when she refused to leave the section reserved for whites.
		In a rush to staff key positions, the Republican governor appointed Arthur to be engineer-in-chief with the rank of quartermaster general in the New York Volunteers.
	www.virtualvermont.com /history/carthur.html (963 words)

	Chester A. Arthur
		Chester A. Arthur, the eldest son, prepared for college at Union Village in Greenwich, and at Schenectady, and in 1845 he entered the sophomore class of Union.
		The prominent events of President Arthur's administration, including his most important recommendations to congress, may be here summarized: Shortly after his accession to the presidency he participated in the dedication of the monument erected at Yorktown, Virginia, to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at that place, 19 Oct., 1781.
		Culver, Parker and Arthur brought a suit in her behalf against the company in the supreme court in Brooklyn, the plaintiff recovered a judgment, and the right of colored persons to ride in any of the city cars was thus secured.
	www.chesterarthur.com (7529 words)

	Chester A. Arthur
		William Arthur had married Malvina Stone, an American girl who lived at the time of the marriage in Canada, and the numerous changes of the family residence afforded a basis for allegations in 1880 that the son Chester was born not in Vermont, but in Canada, and was therefore ineligible for the presidency.
		General Arthur refused to resign on the ground that to retire "under fire" would be to acknowledge wrongdoing, and claimed that as the abuses were inherent in a widespread system he should not be made to bear the responsibility alone.
		Chester entered Union College as a sophomore, and graduated with honor in 1848.
	www.nndb.com /people/565/000024493 (861 words)

	Chester Arthur
		Chester Arthur, who before his elevation to the Presidency was considered the very epitome of patronage politics, had ashis major accomplishment the reform of the civil service system.
		Chester Arthur was born in North Fairfield, Vermont.
		Arthur became active in New York Republican politics, and in 1867, rose to become chairperson of the Executive Committee of the State Republican Committee.
	www.multied.com /Bio/presidents/arthur.html (328 words)

	News of Chester Arthur's Death
		The natural heirs to his property are a son, Chester Alan Arthur, who is 21 years old, a graduate of Princeton College and now a student in Columbia Law School, and a daughter, Miss Nellie, who is about 14 years old.
		Arthur was a very sensitive man, and it was to meet his views that the family preserved a guarded secrecy in regard to his actual condition.
		Arthur had a premonition of its coming, and he may almost be said to have foretold the manner of his death long before the disease itself had touched him.
	starship.python.net /crew/manus/Presidents/caa/caaobit.html (5602 words)

	Chester Alan Arthur : [The American Presidents Series] (The American Presidents) by
		Chester Alan Arthur wasn't a crusader or a firebrand.
		Chester Arthur may be largely forgotten today, but Zachary Karabell eloquently shows how this unexpected president-of whom so little was expected-rose to the occasion when fate placed him in the White House.
		Arthur emphatically supported a plan to build ships "designed for offense and attack" and the text notes without Arthur "....[Teddy] Roosevelt and McKinley might not have had a navy capable of annihilating the Spanish in 1898." In addition, this helped to prepare the United States for the foreign affair challenges of the twentieth century.
	www.naturalskincare.ws /stuff-0805069518.html (2269 words)

	News of Chester Arthur's Death
		The natural heirs to his property are a son, Chester Alan Arthur, who is 21 years old, a graduate of Princeton College and now a student in Columbia Law School, and a daughter, Miss Nellie, who is about 14 years old.
		Arthur was a very sensitive man, and it was to meet his views that the family preserved a guarded secrecy in regard to his actual condition.
		Arthur had a premonition of its coming, and he may almost be said to have foretold the manner of his death long before the disease itself had touched him.
	starship.python.net /crew/manus/Presidents/caa/caaobit.html (5602 words)

	21st President, Chester Alan Arthur
		Chester Alan Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont.
		Arthur made a name for himself as the lawyer who defended a black woman named Lizzie Jennings who was thrown off a streetcar in Brooklyn.
		Arthur died a year before Arthur became President; later, at the White House, his sister acted and performed the duties of First Lady.
	www.presidentialpetmuseum.com /presidents/21CA.htm (277 words)

	President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site - www.HistoricVermont.org
		Chester A. Arthur was buried in Albany, New York, in the family plot at the Rural Cemetery.
		Chester Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in the temporary parsonage.
		Chester A. Arthur was admitted to the New York bar in May 1854 and distinguished himself as a champion of civil rights for blacks.
	www.dhca.state.vt.us /HistoricSites/html/arthur2.html (1373 words)

	Chester A. Arthur
		On September 19, Garfield died, and early the next morning Vice-President Chester Alan Arthur became the new President of the United States.
		Arthur was a handsome man. Tall and broad-shouldered, he impressed people with his dignified bearing and elegant manners.
		Arthur therefore determined not to let his administration be disgraced by the spoils system.
	www.gallatindesign.com /websites/presidents/biographies/21_arthur_bio.html (1398 words)

	Chester A. Arthur
		Arthur's citizenship was questioned when political opponents alledged that he was born across the Vermont border in Canada.
		Arthur was the first president to take the Oath of Office in his own home.
		Arthur denied this and continued on with his term.
	www.geocities.com /presfacts/arthur.html (148 words)

	American President
		Chester Arthur was the fifth child of a fervent abolitionist preacher who moved his family from one Baptist parish to the next throughout New York and Vermont.
		Chester A. Arthur's administration marks a period of transition in American politics.
		As President, Arthur surprised everyone by acting independently, defying his state-based reputation as a slick machine politician who would advance the agenda of his own party faction and ignore the needs of the nation at-large.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/chesterccrthur (722 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Chester Arthur was elected vice president on the ticket with James A. Garfield in 1880.
		Arthur said, "I shall accept the nomination, Senator Conkling, and I shall carry with me the majority of the delegation." Arthur was right.
		Arthur lost the support of the Stalwarts and could not gain the support of reform Republicans.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=atb048b01&templatename=/article/article.html (556 words)

	CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR STATUE - Historical Sign
		Dedicated on June 13, 1899, this monumental bronze portrait of Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886), the 21st United States President, is by sculptor George Edwin Bissell (1839-1920).
		Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont on October 5, 1830, the son of Reverend William Arthur and Malvina Stone.
		Sculptures of Arthur’s contemporaries, Roscoe Conkling (1893) and Secretary of State William Seward (1876) may be found at the southeast and southwest corners respectively of Madison Square Park, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ fine effigy of Admiral Farragut (1881) stands vigilant on the northern side of the park’s central axis.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11970 (482 words)

	Chester Arthur Arnold
		Chester Arthur Arnold (1928) "The development of the perithecium and spermagonium of Sporormia leporina Niessl." in American Journal of Botany 15:4 pp.
		Chester Arthur Arnold (1949) Fossil flora of the Michigan coal basin
		Chester Arthur Arnold (1935) On seedlike structures associated with Archaeopteris, from the Upper Devonian of northern Pennsylvania
	www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us /Authors/CAArnold1562.html (112 words)

	President Chester A. Arthur
		Chester A. Arthur met Ellen Herndon and got married on October 25, 1859.
		Chester A. Arthur was part of the Republican Party.
		Chester was the fifth child of eight children in his family.
	www.pocanticohills.org /presidents/arthur.htm (249 words)

	Chester Arthur
		Chester Arthur was interested in fashionable clothes, at the time he was viewed as a dandy.
		Chester Arthur's father was the Reverend William Arthur (1796-1875).
		Chester was born in Fairfield, Vermont, in 1829.
	histclo.com /pres/ind19/arthur.html (2187 words)

	Chester Arthur
		Chester Alan Arthur was born near the northern Vermont community of Fairfield; later political opponents would charge that he was actually born farther north across the Canadian boundary, which would have rendered him ineligible for the presidency.
		Arthur became active in a number of political organizations and was involved in the establishment of the Republican Party in New York State.
		Arthur's father was an Irish immigrant and Baptist preacher, who kept his family on the move from one town to another.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h725.html (693 words)

	AllRefer.com - Chester Alan Arthur (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Chester Alan Arthur 1829–86, 21st President of the United States (1881–85), b.
		Although Arthur was a loyal party man and a believer in the spoils system, he administered this office honestly and efficiently.
		President Hayes, bent on civil service reform, displaced Arthur in 1878, thus defying Senator Conkling and the New York Republican machine.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Arthur-C.html (328 words)

	President Chester Arthur: Health & Medical History
		Arthur practiced law and business after leaving the Presidency in March 1885, but was advised to retire for medical reasons in February 1886 [3b].
		Arthur was fatigued, irritable, and physically ill during 1882.
		Arthur died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 18, 1886, about 24 hours after being found unconscious by his nurse [1d].
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g21.htm (876 words)

	Explore DC: Chester Alan Arthur
		He "was one of the few Americans who welcomed the prospect of a Chester Arthur presidency," notes historian Paula Baker.* At the time, the New York Times called Arthur "about the last man who would be considered eligible" for the job either by his party (Republican) or the people.
		Arthur became president under a cloud in July 1881, when President James Garfield, only a few months into his term of office, was assassinated by Charles Guiteau.
		Although Arthur was a languid chief executive, another landmark law-the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882-was enacted during his term at the behest of western congressmen.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=97 (495 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -ARTHUR, CHESTER A.
		Arthur was a dandy in dress and a gourmand at the table, but he was neither happy nor healthy when president.
		Arthur mastered the tariff laws and within the limits imposed by the spoils system brought some efficiency to the customhouse.
		Arthur vetoed the outrageous pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill of 1882 (a thinly disguised raid on the Treasury), only to see Congress pass it over his veto.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_005300_arthurcheste.htm (585 words)

	Chester A. Arthur
		Arthur's citizenship was questioned when political opponents alledged that he was born across the Vermont border in Canada.
		Arthur was the first president to take the Oath of Office in his own home.
		Arthur denied this and continued on with his term.
	www.geocities.com /presfacts/arthur.html (148 words)

	Arthur, Chester Alan on Encyclopedia.com
		ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN [Arthur, Chester Alan] 1829-86, 21st President of the United States (1881-85), b.
		Although Arthur was a loyal party man and a believer in the spoils system, he administered this office honestly and efficiently.
		President Hayes, bent on civil service reform, displaced Arthur in 1878, thus defying Senator Conkling and the New York Republican machine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/arthur-c1.asp (362 words)

	Explore DC: Chester Alan Arthur
		In 1855, Chester A. Arthur successfully represented Lizzie Jennings in a landmark case which led to the desegregation of public transportation in New York City.
		Although Arthur was a languid chief executive, another landmark law-the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882-was enacted during his term at the behest of western congressmen.
		Arthur became president under a cloud in July 1881, when President James Garfield, only a few months into his term of office, was assassinated by Charles Guiteau.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=97 (509 words)

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