President Chester Alan Arthur
Birth | 5 OCT 1829 | possibly 1830, he apparently changed the year of his birth | ||
Educ. | 1848 | ![]() | ||
Org. | 1867 | ![]() | ||
Org. | 1871-1878 | ![]() | ||
Org. | 1879-1881 | ![]() | ![]() | |
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 | ||
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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