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	Chester Alan Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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).
		Arthur became principal of North Pownal Academy in North Pownal, Vermont in 1851; later he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1854.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chester_A._Arthur (1595 words)

	Chester A. Arthur - dKosopedia
		Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1830 - November 18, 1886) was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the 20th Vice President in the administration of James Garfield.
		Arthur is also remembered as one of the most society-conscious presidents—earning the nickname "the Gentleman Boss" for his style of dress and cortly manner—as well as dying from Bright's disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%27s_disease), a kidney disorder.
		Arthur later claimed he was actually born in 1830 because of rumors from his political rivals that he was born in Canada rather than in Vermont.
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	Encyclopedia: Chester Alan Arthur
		Arthur was born in the town of Fairfield in Franklin County, Vermont on October 5, 1829 (although he told people that he was born in 1830).
		Arthur was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with President James Garfield for the term beginning March 4, 1881.
		Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as 21st President of the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chester_Alan_Arthur (1276 words)

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

	President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site - www.HistoricVermont.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Chester Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in the temporary parsonage.
		Arthur was reportedly brought to tears by the charges that he was linked to the assassin and by the suggestion he assume the duties of the presidency prior to Garfield’s death.
		Chester A. Arthur was buried in Albany, New York, in the family plot at the Rural Cemetery.
	www.dhca.state.vt.us /HistoricSites/html/arthur2.html (1373 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - Chester A. Arthur
		Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1830 — November 18, 1886) was the twentieth Vice President (1885), and the twenty-first (1881 - 1885) President of the United States.
		Arthur was born in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont ¹; on October 5, 1829.
		Arthur approved a measure in 1882 excluding paupers, criminals, and lunatics.
	www.usa-presidents.info /arthur.htm (720 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.
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	21st President, Chester Alan Arthur
		Chester Alan Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont.
		Arthur died a year before Arthur became President; later, at the White House, his sister acted and performed the duties of First Lady.
		Arthur made a name for himself as the lawyer who defended a fl woman named Lizzie Jennings who was thrown off a streetcar in Brooklyn.
	www.presidentialpetmuseum.com /presidents/21CA.htm (277 words)

	News of Chester Arthur's Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Arthur was a member, and it was the church that Gen. Arthur attended before his public duties took him away from the city.
		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.
		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.
	starship.python.net /crew/manus/Presidents/caa/caaobit.html (5602 words)

	Chester Alan Arthur : [The American Presidents Series] (The American Presidents) by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		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.
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	Chester A. Arthur
		Arthur was a handsome man. Tall and broad-shouldered, he impressed people with his dignified bearing and elegant manners.
		Arthur became Conkling’s lieutenant and worked with him to win the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
		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)

	President Chester Arthur: Health & Medical History
		Arthur was fatigued, irritable, and physically ill during 1882.
		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 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
		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.
		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.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=97 (509 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's father was an Irish immigrant and Baptist preacher, who kept his family on the move from one town to another.
		Arthur became active in a number of political organizations and was involved in the establishment of the Republican Party in New York State.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h725.html (693 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -ARTHUR, CHESTER A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		Arthur was a dandy in dress and a gourmand at the table, but he was neither happy nor healthy when president.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_005300_arthurcheste.htm (585 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Chester Alan Arthur, 20th Vice President (1881)
		From 1871 to 1877, the head of the New York customhouse was Roscoe Conkling's close ally, Chester Alan Arthur.
		Conkling's biographer David Jordan assessed Arthur as "a shrewd, imaginative, and meticulous political manager; he was a master organizer, a necessity for Conkling's new organization." The popular "Chet" Arthur rose quickly within the ranks of the machine.
		Arthur, and had given him political orders for so many years that he could not imagine this pleasure-loving, easy-going man capable of rebellion." Arthur was in New York when Garfield died, and it was Roscoe Conkling who carried the new president's bag to the station when he left for Washington.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Chester_Arthur.htm (3335 words)

	Chester Alan Arthur - Twenty-First President of the United States
		His name was Chester Alan Arthur, and he was born in Vermont.
		General Arthur held this office for four years and then was again appointed to the same office.
		It had it under President Arthur, and the people learned to respect him as a good, safe, moderate man. He left office with the favor and confidence of his party, not with the bitter feeling which had followed Tyler, Fillmore and Johnson.
	www.all-biographies.com /presidents/chester_arthur.htm (1659 words)

	Presidents: Chester A. 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 was a strong supporter of reform in the appointment of government workers.
	www.multied.com /Bio/presidents/arthur.html (361 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		Arthur and Garfield were nearly estranged when Garfield was assassinated and Arthur found himself President.
		Chester A. Arthur's administration marks a period of transition in American politics.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/chesterccrthur (722 words)

	Presidential Avenue: Chester Arthur
		Chester Alan Arthur was born on October 5, 1830 in Fairfield, Vermont.
		Chester A. Arthur died on November 18, 1886 of Bright's disease, a then-fatal kidney ailment.
		In 1886, President Chester Alan Arthur, the 21st President of the United States, was interred at Albany Rural Cemetery.
	www.presidentialavenue.com /ca.cfm (593 words)

	CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR STATUE - Historical Sign
		Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont on October 5, 1830, the son of Reverend William Arthur and Malvina Stone.
		The Arthur sculpture was repatined by the city monuments crew in 1968, and was conserved again in 1986-87.
		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)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Arthur, Chester Alan @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Arthur-C&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (277 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.
		His cause was espoused by Senator Roscoe Conkling, for a time successfully; but on the 11th of July 1878, during a recess of the Senate, the collector was removed, and in January 1879, after another severe struggle, this action received the approval of the Senate.
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