Submitted by ke4ktza on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 21:51
Chester Alan Arthur
21st President of the United States
(September 19, 1881 to March 3, 1885)
Nickname: "The Gentleman Boss"; "Elegant Arthur"
Born: October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont
Died: November 18, 1886, in New York, New York
Father: William Arthur
Mother: Malvina Stone Arthur
Married: Ellen Lewis Herndon (1837-1880), on October 25, 1859
Children: William Lewis Herndon Arthur (1860-63); Chester Alan Arthur (1864-1937); Ellen Herndon Arthur (1871-1915)
Religion: Episcopalian
Education: Graduated from Union College (1848)
Occupation: Lawyer
Political Party: Republican
Other Government Positions:
- Vice president, 1881 (under Garfield)
Presidential Salary: $50,000/year
Vice President: None
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- James G. Blaine (1881)
- Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (1881-85)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- William Windom (1881)
- Charles J. Folger (1881-84)
- Walter Q. Gresham (1884)
- Hugh McCulloch (1884-85)
- Secretary of War
- Robert Todd Lincoln (1881-85)
- Attorney General
- I. Wayne McVeagh (1881)
- Benjamin H. Brewster (1882-85)
- Postmaster General
- Thomas L. James (1881-82)
- Timothy O. Howe (1882-83)
- Walter Q. Gresham (1883-84)
- Frank Hatton (1884-85)
- Secretary of the Navy
- William H. Hunt (1881-82)
- William E. Chandler (1882-85)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Samuel J. Kirkwood (1881-82)
- Henry M. Teller (1882-85)