Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Born: October 5, 1830, in Fairfield, Vermont... "Arthur is president now," declared James Garfield's assassin. A cog in the New York party machine, upon his presidency, Arthur revealed an ...

Chester Alan Arthur, born in Franklin County in 1829, will be among the historic figures depicted in the Netflix drama series “Death by Lightning.” The series is based on the 2011 book “Dest ...

Garfield's successor, Chester Arthur, however, burned most of his papers the day before he died in 1886. For many years, the Library of Congress' Manuscript Division had only one document to ...

The most recent sitting president to not receive the party nod was President Chester Arthur, who served from 1881 to 1885 and ended up in the White House entirely by accident. Arthur was not even ...

5, 2020 6:14 a.m. The words in these letters spoke volumes. Julia Sand wrote to then-vice president Chester A. Arthur, who would become the 21st president of the United States, offering advice on ...