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Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) —
also known as Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur;
"The Gentleman Boss"; "His
Accidency"; "Elegant Arthur"; "Our
Chet"; "Dude President" —
of New York.
Born in Fairfield, Franklin
County, Vt., October
5, 1829.
Son of Rev. William Arthur (1796-1875) and Malvina (Stone) Arthur
(1802-1869).
Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1870-78; New York
Republican state chair, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880;
Vice
President of the United States, 1881; President
of the United States, 1881-85; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1884.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Psi
Upsilon; Union League.
Died, of Bright's
disease and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1886 (age 57 years, 44
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married, October
25, 1859, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon
(1837-1880). |
| | | Arthur County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Chester
A. Heitman
— Chester
A. Johnson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Chester A. Arthur: Thomas
C. Reeves, Gentleman
Boss : The Life of Chester Alan Arthur — Justus D.
Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur — George Frederick Howe, Chester
A. Arthur, A Quarter-Century of Machine Politics —
Zachary Karabell, Chester
Alan Arthur — Paul Joseph, Chester
Arthur (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) —
also known as Levi P. Morton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Shoreham, Addison
County, Vt., May 16,
1824.
Son of Rev. Daniel Oliver Morton and Lucretia (Parsons) Morton.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1879-81; U.S.
Minister to France, 1881-85; Vice
President of the United States, 1889-93; Governor of
New York, 1895-97; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1896.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 16,
1920 (age 96 years, 0
days).
Interment at Rhinebeck
Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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Julius Hubbell Seymour (b. 1855) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., October
30, 1855.
Son of Henry Edmund Seymour and Susan Katherine (Hubbell) Seymour.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1901-02.
Member, Union League; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Burial
location unknown.
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Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) —
also known as Theodore N. Vail —
of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845.
Son of Davis Vail and Phebe (Quinby) Vail.
Republican. General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service,
1876-79; president, American Telephone
and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union League.
Died, from kidney and
cardiac
complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April 16,
1920 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.
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