Historical Annotation

HISTORICAL ANNOTATION 1039

tion. Macon (Ga.) Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger, 18 June 1871, 26 January 1875; Chicago Daily Inter Ocean,27 September 1881; Atchison (Kans.) Globe,14 July 1882; Douglass Papers, ser. 1, 4:581, 5:xvii; Warren Almand, ed., Florida State University Studies, Series: Florida Educators (Tallahassee, 1959), 65-73.

483.14 President Arthur] Chester Alan Arthur (1830-86) was born in East Fairfield, Vermont. In 1848 he graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, whereupon he became the principal of an academy in Vermont. Arthur then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1854. During the Civil War Arthur served as the quartermaster general with the rank of brigadier general for the state of New York. After the war President Grant appointed him collector of the port of New York from 1871 to 1878. He was chosen as the running mate of Republican James A. Garfield in 1880 and became vice president on 4 March 1881. Arthur was sworn in as the twenty-first president of the United States on 20 September 1881, following the death of President Garfield. ACAB, 1:99-106; DAB, 1:373-76; ANB, 1:646--48; BDUSC (online).