President Chester Alan Arthur

Birth	5 OCT 1829		possibly 1830, he apparently changed the year of his birth
Education	1848
Org.	1867		Century Club, Member
Org.	1871-1878		Collector of the Port of New York
Election	1880		USA Presidential Election
History	JUN 1880		Republican National Convention Delegate
Occup	1881-1885
Occup	1881-1881
Death	18 NOV 1886		Cause: cerebral hemorrhage
Grave

The public was quite concerned that Roscoe Conkling's old friend and political henchman, Chester Arthur, one who very much approved of the patronage system, was now President. An interesting point about Arthur's becoming President was that he actually took the oath of office twice: "the first administered," notes John Sutherland Bonnell in his PRESIDENTIAL PROFILES, "as soon as news of the president's death reached him and the second when the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court presided. On the latter occasion, President Arthur opened the Bible at the Thirty-first Psalm and reverently kissed the page." He had selected this psalm, because the opening verses reminded him of the Te Deum which his wife often sang in the Episcopal choir,... Read More