Chester A. Arthur

BIRTH NAME
Chester Alan Arthur

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Episcopalian

EDUCATION
Union College B.A. 1848; Read law with Erastus D. Culver in NYC

VITALS
6 ft 2 in / 224 lbs

Career
1848-52 School teacher in Schaghticoke, New York & North Pownal, Vermont
1852-53 School principal, Cohoes, New York,
1854-61 Practiced law in New York City
1861-63 Brigadier general, New York militia's quartermaster department
1863-71 Practiced law in New York City
1869-70 Counsel, New York City Tax Commission
1871-79 Collector, Custom House, Port of New York
1879-81 Chairman, New York State Republican Executive Committee
1881 U.S. Vice President (Garfield)

ADMINISTRATION
Assassin Charles Guiteau convicted & executed (1882); Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (1883); Washington Monument dedicated (1885)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Horace Gray, Samuel Blatchford

FIRST LADY
Mary Arthur McElroy, sister (1881-85)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1885-86 Of counsel, Arthur, Knevals, & Ransom

“Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.”
Upon the death of James Garfield, September, 1881

Portrait of Chester Arthur by Daniel Huntington, 1885.