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The Chester A. Arthur Home is located at 123 Lexington Avenue, in the Murray Hill [4] or Rose Hill neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. [5] [6] It sits between 29th Street to the north and 28th Street to the south, facing Lexington Avenue to the west from a frontage of 21.83 feet (6.65 m).
The President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site is a state historic site located in Fairfield, Vermont. It honors Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, who was born in Vermont in 1829. The site includes a replica of the original early 19th-century home in which he was born that was constructed in 1953 using an old ...
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 [b] – November 18, 1886) was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican lawyer from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination, Arthur's presidency saw the ...
Chester A. Arthur 's tenure as the 21st president of the United States began on September 19, 1881, when he succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of President James A. Garfield, and ended on March 4, 1885. Arthur, a Republican, had been vice president for 199 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
The 1880 United States presidential election was the 24th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1880, in which Republican nominee James A. Garfield defeated Winfield Scott Hancock of the Democratic Party. The voter turnout rate was one of the highest in the nation's history.
Arthur's son Chester Alan Arthur II, was called to Arthur's home from his studies at Columbia University. [62] Brady administered the presidential oath at 2:15 a.m. in the front parlor of Arthur's brownstone at 123 Lexington Avenue, reading off of a scrap of paper on which the oath was handwritten. [62]
The Roscoe Conkling House is a historic house at 3 Rutger Park in Utica, New York, United States. A National Historic Landmark, it was the home of Roscoe Conkling (1829–1888), a powerful and controversial politician. He is responsible, perhaps, for the angry, political atmosphere that led to the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
Chester A. Arthur, the incumbent president in 1884, whose term expired on March 4, 1885. The 1884 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, on June 3–6, with former Secretary of State James G. Blaine from Maine, President Arthur, and Senator George F. Edmunds from Vermont as the frontrunners. Though he was still popular ...