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Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) —
also known as Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur;
"The Gentleman Boss"; "His
Accidency"; "Elegant Arthur"; "Our
Chet"; "Dude President" —
of New York.
Born in Fairfield, Franklin
County, Vt., October
5, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1870-78; New York
Republican state chair, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880;
Vice
President of the United States, 1881; President
of the United States, 1881-85; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1884.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Psi
Upsilon; Union League.
Died, of Bright's
disease and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1886 (age 57 years, 44
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. William Arthur and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; married, October
25, 1859, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon; fourth cousin once
removed of Benjamin
Franklin Flanders and Cassius
Montgomery Clay Twitchell. |
| | | Political families: Eastman
family; Flanders
family of Vermont; Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders
family of New Hampshire; Fairbanks-Adams
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Arthur County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | The village
of Arthur,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The village
of Chester,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lake
Arthur, in Polk
County, Minnesota, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Chester
A. Heitman
— Chester
Arthur Pike
— Chester
A. Johnson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Chester A. Arthur: Thomas
C. Reeves, Gentleman
Boss : The Life of Chester Alan Arthur — Justus D.
Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur — George Frederick Howe, Chester
A. Arthur, A Quarter-Century of Machine Politics —
Zachary Karabell, Chester
Alan Arthur — Paul Joseph, Chester
Arthur (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Harold Whitney Mason (1895-1944) —
also known as Harold W. Mason —
of Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
21, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; boot and shoe
business; vice-president, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital;
director for power
companies, insurance
companies, the Central Vermont Railway,
and the Estey Organ
Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1932;
Convention Secretary, 1940,
1944;
secretary, Arrangements Committee, secretary, 1940;
speaker, 1940;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; delegate
to Vermont convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; member of
Republican
National Committee from Vermont, 1936-44; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1937-44.
Member, American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union League; Sigma
Nu.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
3, 1944 (age 49 years, 196
days).
Interment at Morningside
Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lysander Mason and Margaret Etta (Matthews) Mason;
married, March
17, 1918, to Evelyn Hawley Dunham. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Official Report of the
22nd Republican National Convention (1940) |
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Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) —
also known as Levi P. Morton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Shoreham, Addison
County, Vt., May 16,
1824.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; banker; financier;
U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1879-81; defeated,
1876; U.S. Minister to France, 1881-85; Vice
President of the United States, 1889-93; Governor of
New York, 1895-97; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1896.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., May 16,
1920 (age 96 years, 0
days).
Interment at Rhinebeck
Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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Julius Hubbell Seymour (b. 1855) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., October
30, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1901-02.
Member, Union League; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) —
also known as Theodore N. Vail —
of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845.
Republican. General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service,
1876-79; president, American Telephone
and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union League.
Died, from kidney
and cardiac
complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April
16, 1920 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.
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