Chestor_Alan_Arthur

Chestor Alan Arthur Chester Alan Arthur Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States who gained the presidency when President James A. Garfield was assassinated. Arthur rose above loyalty to his political party to enact the first comprehensive U.S. civil service legislation. The act signaled a new era of reform in national politics, but lost Arthur the support of his party, and after completing Garfield's term he was forced to retire from public life.Arthur was born in 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, he was the oldest son of William Arthur, an Irish-born Baptist minister and schoolteacher, and Malvina Stone Arthur. The family lived in several towns in Vermont and northern New York before they moved to Saratoga County, New York, in 1839. Young Arthur attended an academy at Union Village, New York. After Arthur graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1848, he studied law and taught in a local school. In 1852 he was appointed principal of an academy near Albany, New York, and a year later he moved to New York City to work in the law office of Erastus D. Culver, a friend of his father. In 1854 Arthur passed the bar exam and received his arthur, new, york, president, political, party, congress, civil, support, service, law, conkling, reform, city, bill, arthur's, system, republican, jobs, government, garfield, became, act, senate, practice, federal, election, customs, customhouse, candidate, after, won, states, state, spoils, senator, public, office, morgan, machine, loyalty, general, before, again, , work, vermont, united, union, term, supporters