Date

Dec 23 2024

Event

Death

21st U.S. President Chester A. Arthur Death

Chester A. Arthur was the 21st president of the United States. He served as vice president at the time President James Garfield was assassinated, and acceded to the presidency thereafter.

• Chester Alan Arthur was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885.
• Born: October 5, 1829, Fairfield, VT
• Died: November 18, 1886, Chester A. Arthur Home, New York, NY
• Presidential term: September 20, 1881 – March 4, 1885
• Party: Republican Party
• Years of service: 1857–1863
• Buried: Albany Rural Cemetery, NY
• First president born in Vermont.
• First president to take the oath of office in his own home.
• First president to have an elevator installed in the White House.
• First president to have been appointed to a non-cabinet or ambassadorial federal office, having been appointed collector of the Port of New York by Ulysses S. Grant in 1871.