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Mother: Malvina STONE |
Early Life"....Arthur entered Union College in Schenectady,
N.Y., at the age of 15. After his graduation in 1848 he studied
law at home and earned his living as a teacher at North Pownal,
Vt., and as principal of the academy at Cohoes, N.Y. He received
his final training in New York City at the law office of Culver
and Parker. Admitted to the bar in 1854, he formed his own law
firm in 1856.
Rise in New York Politics: Soon after his arrival in New York
City, Arthur became associated with the newborn REPUBLICAN,
joining its ranks to make acquaintances and to find new clients.
On Oct. 25, 1859, he married Ellen Lewis Herndon, and the couple
had three children, one of whom died in childhood.
Arthur worked assiduously for the reelection of Edwin D. Morgan
as governor of New York, and when Morgan won in 1860, Arthur was
given the post of state engineer-in-chief. In 1861, after the
outbreak of the Civil War, he became the state's assistant
quartermaster general, with responsibility for supplying
barracks, food, and equipment for the New York militia. On July
27, 1862, three weeks after President LINCOLN's call for 300,000
more men, Arthur was advanced to the state quartermaster
generalship.
When Governor Morgan was succeeded by the Democrat Horatio
Seymour in 1863, Arthur returned to his law practice, but he
retained close association with the city's Republican
organization. The boss of the state's Republican political
machine was Sen. Roscoe Conkling. Arthur supported him, becoming
one of his chief henchmen. Conkling obtained from President
GRANT an appointment for Arthur as collector of the port of New
York; thus in 1871 Arthur became the head of the customs house,
a post that enabled him to give jobs to thousands of
Republicans. Though personally honest, Arthur closed his eyes to
unethical practices, incompetency, and graft in his office.
In 1877, the year President HAYES took office, an investigation
of the customs house was undertaken, and its lax management
exposed. A prolonged and bitter fight between the New York party
machine and Hayes ensued. Finally, Arthur was removed from
office in 1878.
Vice President: At the Republican National Convention of 1880,
Conkling's "stalwart" faction (which took the name by
contrasting their own "stalwart" Republicanism with that of the
reform elements in the party) supported former president Grant's
nomination for a third term. Arthur was one of the 306
"stalwart" delegates who voted for Grant until the last ballot.
However, the convention choice for president was James A.
GARFIELD. To conciliate the defeated stalwarts, Arthur was
suggested for the VICE PRESIDENCY. Conkling told him: "If you
wish for my favor and my respect you will contemptuously decline
it [the nomination]." But Arthur replied: "Senator Conkling, I
shall accept the nomination and I shall carry with me the
majority of the delegation." And he did.
After the election of the Garfield-Arthur ticket, the issue of
the New York patronage flared up again. Conkling expected the
new president to consult him on all federal patronage in New
York state, and in this demand Arthur backed the senator, his
old boss. When President Garfield stubbornly refused, both New
York senators--Conkling and Thomas Platt--resigned their seats,
mistakenly anticipating speedy reelection by the legislature.
Meanwhile, a deranged office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau, shot
President Garfield on July 2, 1881, exclaiming, "I am a Stalwart
of the Stalwarts ... Arthur is president now."
The Presidency: Throughout the summer Garfield lay between life
and death. Late on September 19 he died, and early the next day
Arthur took the oath. "Chet Arthur, President of the United
States! Good God!" exclaimed a Republican, expressing a widely
held feeling.
But those who feared that under Arthur the spoils system would
become rampant and that political bossism would be the order of
the day were to be much surprised. As chief executive, Arthur
showed great responsibility. He filled federal offices with
competent men, even though they were of the "stalwart" faction,
and Conkling did not become the power behind the throne.
Arthur as president would not be the henchman of anyone. He gave
the country an honest administration. His legislative program
was moderate; he asked for tariff revision, for a reduction of
excise taxes, for funds to rebuild the obsolete Navy, and for
the creation of an up-to-date merchant marine. But CONGRESS gave
little heed to his recommendations. Despite the tremendous
surplus pouring into the Treasury, taxes and tariff duties were
not reduced.
President Arthur continued the prosecution of the Star Route
swindlers in the Post Office Department, who had received large
cutbacks from mail contractors. He vetoed a huge pork-barrel
appropriation of almost $19,000,000 for the improvement of
rivers and harbors because he considered it to be wasteful and
improper. He also vetoed a Chinese exclusion bill barring
Chinese nationals from admission as immigrants to the United
States, holding that the legislation was inconsistent with the
existing treaty with China. Both presidential vetoes were
overridden by Congress, however. Another law passed during his
administration was the Anti-Polygamy Act, aimed at the Mormons
in Utah.
In the midterm elections of 1882 the electorate gave the
Democrats an overwhelming majority in the HOUSE, while in the
SENATE the Republicans had a scant majority. In the New York
gubernatorial election the president threw his weight behind the
candidacy of Charles J. Folger, and when Folger was defeated by
the obscure mayor of Buffalo (Grover Cleveland), Arthur's
political influence suffered so badly that his nomination for
the presidency in his own right became improbable.
The lame duck session of Congress passed the Pendleton Civil
Service Act, the first great step toward a merit system. Arthur
signed it into law on Jan. 16, 1883.
As Arthur's administration neared its end, public opinion about
him changed. Many critics turned into supporters. Mark Twain
said: "I am but one in 55,000,000; still, in the opinion of this
one-fifty-five millionth of the country's population, it would
be hard to better President Arthur's administration. But don't
decide till you hear from the rest."
Arthur naturally hoped that the Republicans would nominate him
in 1884. But as he had the support neither of the reform wing
nor of the party bosses, his candidacy became an idle hope. On
the first BALLOT he had 278 votes against frontrunner James G.
Blaine's 33412, but on the fourth ballot the prize was Blaine's,
with 541 votes against Arthur's 207. Blaine lost the election to
Grover Cleveland.
His term completed, Arthur returned to his New York law
practice. A year and a half later--on Nov. 18, 1886--he died in
New York City of Bright's disease.
Aside from the quality of his administration, Chester A. Arthur
will be remembered for being the most elegant and best-dressed
president, in whose closet hung some 80 suits. Nicknamed "The
Gentleman Boss," he read Scott and Thackeray, was an inveterate
fisherman, enjoyed parties, and had an epicure's taste in food
and drink. Handsome, dignified, and genial, he was a
conscientious administrator, but never an inspiring leader of
men.
Stefan Lorant; Author, The Presidency: A Pictorial History of
Presidential Elections from Washington to Truman
Further Reading:
Doenecke, Justus D., The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and
Chester A. Arthur (Univ. Press of Kans. 1981)
Howe, George F., Chester A. Arthur (1934; reprint, Ungar 1957)
Reeves, Thomas C., Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan
Arthur (1975; reprint, Amer Political 1991)"
Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur by Thomas C.
Reeves, Katherine E. Speirs (Editor).
BIO from http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html
Chester A. Arthur: Dignified, tall, and handsome, with
clean-shaven chin and side-whiskers, Chester A. Arthur "looked
like a President."
The son of a Baptist preacher who had emigrated from northern
Ireland, Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont, in 1829. He was
graduated from Union College in 1848, taught school, was
admitted to the bar, and practiced law in New York City. Early
in the Civil War he served as Quartermaster General of the State
of New York.
President Grant in 1871 appointed him Collector of the Port of
New York. Arthur effectively marshalled the thousand Customs
House employees under his supervision on behalf of Roscoe
Conkling's Stalwart Republican machine.
Honorable in his personal life and his public career, Arthur
nevertheless was a firm believer in the spoils system when it
was coming under vehement attack from reformers. He insisted
upon honest administration of the Customs House, but staffed it
with more employees than it needed, retaining them for their
merit as party workers rather than as Government officials.
In 1878 President Hayes, attempting to reform the Customs House,
ousted Arthur. Conkling and his followers tried to win redress
by fighting for the renomination of Grant at the 1880 Republican
Convention. Failing, they reluctantly accepted the nomination of
Arthur for the Vice Presidency.
During his brief tenure as Vice President, Arthur stood firmly
beside Conkling in his patronage struggle against President
Garfield. But when Arthur succeeded to the Presidency, he was
eager to prove himself above machine politics.
Avoiding old political friends, he became a man of fashion in
his garb and associates, and often was seen with the elite of
Washington, New York, and Newport. To the indignation of the
Stalwart Republicans, the onetime Collector of the Port of New
York became, as President, a champion of civil service reform.
Public pressure, heightened by the assassination of Garfield,
forced an unwieldy Congress to heed the President.
In 1883 Congress passed the Pendleton Act, which established a
bipartisan Civil Service Commission, forbade levying political
assessments against officeholders, and provided for a
"classified system" that made certain Government positions
obtainable only through competitive written examinations. The
system protected employees against removal for political
reasons.
Acting independently of party dogma, Arthur also tried to lower
tariff rates so the Government would not be embarrassed by
annual surpluses of revenue. Congress raised about as many rates
as it trimmed, but Arthur signed the Tariff Act of 1883.
Aggrieved Westerners and Southerners looked to the Democratic
Party for redress, and the tariff began to emerge as a major
political issue between the two parties.
The Arthur Administration enacted the first general Federal
immigration law. Arthur approved a measure in 1882 excluding
paupers, criminals, and lunatics. Congress suspended Chinese
immigration for ten years, later making the restriction
permanent.
Arthur demonstrated as President that he was above factions
within the Republican Party, if indeed not above the party
itself. Perhaps in part his reason was the well-kept secret he
had known since a year after he succeeded to the Presidency,
that he was suffering from a fatal kidney disease. He kept
himself in the running for the Presidential nomination in 1884
in order not to appear that he feared defeat, but was not
renominated, and died in 1886. Publisher Alexander K. McClure
recalled, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and
widely distrusted, and no one ever retired ... more generally
respected."
"Chester Alan Arthur 21st President of the United States,
1881-1885
Chester Arthur was a sociable romantic with large seal eyes and
a full round face sporting walrus whiskers.
Arthur was a recent widower when he entered the White House. He
had flowers placed before his wife's portrait every day, and he
never recovered from her death.
Arthur was deeply haunted by Garfield's assassination.
Arthur was considered an honest man, but his party was not. His
party turned against him and failed to nominate him for a second
term. He died a broken man less than two years out of office."
(Src: http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/21.htm)
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Mother: J. Ann |
The tombstone's birth years of Wm. B. and Katie Lee are NOT
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[379894]
(1900 census); ca. 1862 (Voter Reg.); 1866 (tombstone)
_(RESEARCH QUERY) LEE _ | _Joshua LEE Sr. of Jackson Co. AL_| | (1796 - 1873) | | |_______________________ | _Giles (William) LEE C.S.A._| | (1818 - 1870) | | | _______________________ | | | | |_UNNAMED__________________________| | (1790 - ....) | | |_______________________ | | |--William B. LEE | (1855 - 1920) | _______________________ | | | __________________________________| | | | | | |_______________________ | | |_J. Ann_____________________| (1823 - ....) | | _______________________ | | |__________________________________| | |_______________________
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_Alexander MCCANTS Jr._+ | (1798 - 1870) m 1819 _John Thomas MCCANTS C.S.A._| | (1821 - 1893) m 1835 | | |_Martha Jones DANIEL __+ | (1801 - 1860) m 1819 _James L. MCCANTS ____| | (1846 - 1929) m 1865 | | | _Thomas BURROWS _______+ | | | (1785 - 1828) m 1805 | |_Sarah BURROWS _____________| | (1817 - 1863) m 1835 | | |_Jane SNOWDEN _________+ | (1785 - ....) m 1805 | |--James Bright MCCANTS | (1887 - 1949) | _______________________ | | | ____________________________| | | | | | |_______________________ | | |_Mary Susannah GREEN _| (1857 - 1917) m 1865 | | _______________________ | | |____________________________| | |_______________________
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Father: Ellis Washington PUTNEY Mother: Frances "Fannie" FEARN |
_(Query Research) PUTNEY _ | _Richard PUTNEY _____| | (1715 - 1778) m 1742| | |__________________________ | _Ellis Washington PUTNEY _| | (1755 - 1822) | | | _Edward ELLIS ____________ | | | (1700 - 1754) | |_Sarah ELLIS ________| | (1725 - ....) m 1742| | |__________________________ | | |--Elizabeth "Betsy" PUTNEY | (1783 - 1850) | _John FEARN ______________+ | | (1692 - 1743) m 1716 | _John FEARN _________| | | (1717 - 1782) m 1744| | | |_Sarah WORTHAM (WORTHEM) _+ | | (1701 - 1720) m 1716 |_Frances "Fannie" FEARN __| (1759 - 1819) | | _Thomas LEE ______________+ | | (1679 - 1742) |_Leeanna LEE ________| (1728 - 1759) m 1744| |_Elizabeth KEENE _________+ (1701 - 1759)
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Father: George Fayette WASHINGTON of Waverly Mother: Frances FRAME |
_Charles WASHINGTON ___+ | (1738 - 1799) m 1757 _George Augustine WASHINGTON _| | (1763 - 1793) m 1785 | | |_Mildred THORNTON _____+ | (1739 - 1804) m 1757 _George Fayette WASHINGTON of Waverly_| | (1790 - 1867) m 1813 | | | _Burwell BASSETT ______+ | | | (1734 - 1793) m 1757 | |_Frances BASSETT _____________| | (1767 - 1796) m 1785 | | |_Anna Maria DANDRIDGE _+ | (1739 - 1777) m 1757 | |--Matthew Burrell "Byrd" Bassett WASHINGTON | (1830 - 1862) | _______________________ | | | ______________________________| | | | | | |_______________________ | | |_Frances FRAME _______________________| (1790 - ....) m 1813 | | _______________________ | | |______________________________| | |_______________________
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Father: Samuel III WEAVER Mother: Mary ROBINSON |
_William WEAVER _____+ | (1628 - 1678) _Samuel II WEAVER ___| | (1664 - 1708) | | |_Mary GITHINGS ______+ | (1640 - ....) _Samuel III WEAVER __| | (1690 - 1769) m 1707| | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Thomas WEAVER | (1710 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _Anthony ROBINSON ___| | | (1660 - ....) | | | |_____________________ | | |_Mary ROBINSON ______| (1685 - 1727) m 1707| | _____________________ | | |_Mary STARKEY _______| (1660 - ....) | |_____________________
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Mother: Susannah Attaway BOLLING |
_Jeremiah WHITTEN Sr.____________________+ | (1730 - 1778) _Jeremiah WHITTEN Jr._| | (1763 - ....) m 1794 | | |_Ann BERRY ______________________________+ | (1735 - ....) _Richard WHITTEN __________| | (1787 - 1836) m 1813 | | | _William or John? or Richard? PENDLETON _+ | | | (1720 - 1779) m 1748 | |_Mary PENDLETON ______| | (1772 - ....) m 1794 | | |_Elizabeth TINSLEY ______________________+ | (1727 - 1783) m 1748 | |--Mary C. WHITTEN | (1829 - 1927) | _Robert BOLLING of "Chellowe"____________+ | | (1738 - 1775) m 1765 | _John BOLLING ________| | | (1770 - ....) | | | |_Susan WATSON ___________________________ | | (1745 - ....) m 1765 |_Susannah Attaway BOLLING _| (1790 - 1870) m 1813 | | _________________________________________ | | |______________________| | |_________________________________________
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