Some important events that molded Chester Alan Arthur's character include his early education in Vermont, where he developed a disciplined work ethic, his service in the Union Army during the American Civil War, which shaped his leadership abilities and patriotism, and his presidency, during which he worked to reform the civil service system and restore integrity to the government.

1. President Chester Arthur owned approximately 108 pairs of paints.

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States. He was elected vice-president and became president after James Garfield was killed. He was added to the ticket to placate the Stalwart faction of the Republican party but he disappointed them when he became President and signed the Pendleton Act for civil service reform .

Having alienated his power base he was not nominated for a second term.

He was a dependable and sharp minded executive. He is little known by most people and was not famous even at the time he assumed the U.S. Presidency.

He is best known for his signing of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. This law helped attack the existing spoils and patronage system. Many government jobs began to be given to candidates qualifying through a written exam process.

President Arthur also signed a Tariff Bill and began the process of improving our U.S. Navy and its fleet of vessels. The noted historian and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Arthur Schlessinger, has written that at the time of Arthur's initiative, the U.S. Navy contained only three workable ships. Targeting funds for this cause, the U.S. Navy began its voyage toward becoming a more modernized and capable force in U.S. security operations.

President Arthur came from a strict Christian upbringing. His father was once a Free Will Baptist minister.

There is no record of any pets while Chester Arthur was President.

He never ran for president. He was vice president put into office as president when Garfield was assassinated.

Arthur became President because of the murder of President Garfield. The Civil Service System was begun during his administation, thereby ending, or at least diminishing the spoils system which was a factor in Garfield's being shot.

Chester Arthur won the vice-presidential election. He never won a presidential election. James Garfield won the 1880 presidential election defeating Winfield Hancock. In the presidential election James Garfield received 214 electoral votes and Winfield Hancock received 155 electoral votes. In the vice-presidential election Chester Arthur received 214 electoral votes and Winfield Hancock received 155 electoral votes. James Garfield was shot July 2, 1881 and died September 19, 1881. Chester Arthur succeeded James Garfield upon the latter's assassination.

Chester Alan Arthur (October 4, 1829 - Nov. 18, 1886) was 21st President of the United States. He was elected as Vice-President and became President when Garfield was killed.

He was from New York and was put on the ticket as a favor to the Stalwart faction of the Republican party. These people enjoyed the political patronage that federal law allowed at the time. Arthur was a lawyer and Collector of Customs of the Port of New York when he was elected Vice-President.

Once he became President, he pushed for civil service reform. His supporters in New York saw this as treason to his party, so they blocked his nomination for a second term.

One interesting thing is that they was a dispute about whether he was born in the US. He claimed to have been born in northern Vermont, but some said he was born farther north, in Canada. His was Canadian and he and his wife did live in Canada not long before Chester was born, so the Canadian birth seemed believable. The only hard evidence was a family Bible.

He died of complications of Bright's disease which is a leak in the kidney which is basically a kidney failure.

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No one. Arthur died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1886.

No. He was from New York and served in the New York militia to help fight for the North during the Civil War. (His young wife was, however, a private Southern sympathizer, because she had kin-folk in Virginia.) His father was a stauch abolitionist.

Chester A. Arthur was Vice President when President James A. Garfield was assassinated and immediately assumed the role of the presidency.

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