The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
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The Little-Known President
She thus created the first presidential library, setting the precedent for the collection of papers of the President for posterity. Garfield's successor, Chester Arthur, however, burned most of ...
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Chester Alan Arthur
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 ...
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Biden and the 140-year-old ghost of the last president to be denied the their party's nomination: Chester Arthur entered the White House after an assassination and didn't fight ...
The most recent sitting president to not receive the party nod was President Chester Arthur, who served from 1881 to 1885 and ended up in the White House entirely by accident. Arthur was not even ...