Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 83, No. 191, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1972 Page: 5 of 50
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Twenty-first President of the United States
(1881-1885). Bom: Oct. 5,1830. Died: Nov. 18,1886.
Chester Arthur's most spectacular public act was
the right-about-face that he performed on one of
the principal issues of the day: Political patronage.
Prior to his ascension to the presidency he was a
machine politician — in the words of one historian
— "notable only as an accomplished practitioner of
the spoils system."
As chief executive, he fought and virtually anni-
hilated the same evils he had once espoused and
perpetuated. His accidentally acquired term of of-
fice was clean and honorable.
He was born in Fairfield, Vt., of a good middle-
class family, received a sound education, taught
school and was admitted to the bar in New York
City which was his home for many years. Becom-
ing intimately involved in Republican machine pol-
itics he was rewarded with an appointment as
Collector of the Port for New York City. Shortly
thereafter, President Hayes issued an order
against job patronage policies by government offi-
cers and specially warned Arthur in respect to the
new regulation. He ignored the injunction. He was
fired.
His nomination to the vice presidency on the Gar-
field ticket was a sop to political expediency and
there was moaning and sniveling among non-Re-
publican groups when Garfield was killed and the
tall, handsome, fastidiously dressed Arthur was ad-
vanced to the top post. In the words of one writer,
"the politicians have tempted fate once too often."
He surprised them to their toe-ends. Having
fought against Garfield in the patronage struggle
he now reversed himself and defended the same
anti-spoils principles that the dead President had
espoused. He accomplished the passage of the Civil
Service Bill and arranged for the financial imple-
mentation of the bill after its enactment. He
sparked a successful probe of fraud in the post of-
fice department.
The creation of the nation's first sound immigra-
tion law was his handiwork (involving the future
rejection of lunatics, idiots, paupers and contract
workers) and the result of his indignation, while
New York Port Collector, over America's becom-
ing a dumping ground for the unwanted of Europe.
And he clearly and unequivocally disavowed his
membership in his party's political machine.
Virtue is said to be its own reward but in politics
it is sometimes its only reward. Chester Arthur
sought renomination in 1884 but James G. Blaine
got it on the fourth ballot and. without muph of a
struggle on the part of the incumbent president's
dwindling band of adherents. Besides, Arthur's
health was poor inasmuch as the widower chief ex-
ecutive was over-addicted to fine foods, high living
and "midnight suppers and revels" in the words of
the press of the time.
He returned to New York to practice law and
there, a year after leaving the White House, he
died of Bright's Disease, a heart ailment and a cer-
ebral hemorrhage.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 83, No. 191, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1972, newspaper, September 29, 1972; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1788412/m1/5/: accessed June 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.