Born: October 5, 1830, in Fairfield, Vermont... "Arthur is president now," declared James Garfield's assassin. A cog in the New York party machine, upon his presidency, Arthur revealed an ...

Chester A. Arthur may not be one of the most well-known presidents, but Midlander John Pafford's newest book is aiming to bring this 19th Century U.S. president into the limelight. Pafford's biography ...

Vermont’s own Chester Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, was born in Fairfield on October 5, 1829, but both the ...

“The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur” by Scott S. Greenberger, Da Capo Press, 304 pages, $28 Nebraskans waiting with breathless anticipation for an updated biography of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Carl Sferrazza Anthony talked about the lives of Chester and Ellen Arthur prior to him succeeding James Garfield as president as well as the role of ...

The first Vermont-born man to become president of the United States is about to get his turn as a 21st-century star, 140 years after he led the nation. Chester Alan Arthur, born in Franklin County in ...

Scott Greenberger isn’t sure exactly where Chester Alan Arthur belongs on any list of U.S. presidential rankings, but he’s convinced of one thing. History hasn’t been all that fair to the one-time ...

On this day in 1886, Chester Arthur, who served from 1881 to 1885 as the nation’s 21st president, died in New York City at age 57. He succumbed to complications from Bright’s disease, a kidney ailment ...

The question came up at a post-inauguration feast (oysters! champagne! grilled sardines!) and one of our party did not believe Chester A. Arthur was, in fact, a president. "He's not a president," she ...

Here’s an author setting the scene for his interesting new book, “The Unexpected President”: “In the United States, amazing new technologies are creating vast fortunes-but only for a select few; the ...