Who is Chester Arthur?
WINEAPPLE: And Chester A. Arthur. It has its own sort of political, you know, commitment. LAMB: How long have you been there? WINEAPPLE: Do I have to answer that? LAMB: Yes. WINEAPPLE: Twenty-some years. LAMB: And where did you come from to there, where did you go to school? Where did you …. WINEAPPLE: I`m from New England. LAMB: Where? WINEAPPLE: And, in fact my father is from Salem, Massachusetts. I`m from Haverhill, Massachusetts, which is a mill town, or a factory town in the Merrimack, you know, river valley in northeast Massachusetts. And from there, I went not very far to college. I went to Brandeis University, which is in Waltham. LAMB: What did you study? WINEAPPLE: I studied American and English literature, primarily. Excuse me. LAMB: And do you know — I mean, you examined this life. Do you know in your own life why you are interested in writing, writers, literature, teaching? WINEAPPLE: I love to read. LAMB: Where did you get that? WINEAPPLE: Where did I get it? Where I`d
Chester Arthur was a lawyer and teacher, an abolitionist, a party boss known for taking kickbacks, vice president under President James Garfield, and became the 21st American President upon Garfield’s assassination. In 1884, Arthur was defeated for the Republican nomination by James G. Blaine, who had been Secretary of State under Garfield, and again under Benjamin Harrison. Chester Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829, the son of a Baptist minister. He attended Union College in New York and became a lawyer, working for a prominent New York firm. He joined the Republican Party in 1850, and in 1855, he won a landmark discrimination suit on behalf of an African American woman who was forced off a streetcar. After serving as quartermaster general in New York during the Civil War, Chester Arthur became part of the Republican political machine of the time. In his role as customs collector for the port at New York City, an appointment he received in 1871, Arthur became involved in s
