Chester Alan Arthur
January 3, 1996
Born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829 Arthur grew up by graduating from Union college in 1848 and eventually serving in New York as a Quartermaster General.
In 1878 Arthur was accepted as vice-president. After the assassination of President Garfield, Arthur was put up to the level of Presidency. In 1883, congress passed the pendleton act which is an act that helped reform the American national civil service.
Arthur also tried lowering tarriffs so the government wouldn't be embarrassed by the yearly amounts of income. This was made in 1883 also and both Southerners and Westerners started feeling resentment towards each other at feeling unfairly treated.
Before this, in 1882, Arthur made the first immigration law by making sure no paupers, criminals, or lunatics got in and in ten more years, chinese were rejected also.
Arthur died of a fatal kidney disease two years after his presidency ended in 1886. A Publisher Alexander K. McClure recalled, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected."
For the truth...I didn't even know he was alive! I thought he'd be a good person to do that no one else would think of! He was a good president and brave at times. It's too bad not many people know him...now they will! :)
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