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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mpcusa, post: 3411205, member: 26550&quot;]Here,s a little more on are boy Chet !</p><p><br /></p><p><b>21st President, 1881-85</b></p><p>Chester Arthur was one of five Presidents who was never elected — he took office after James Garfield&#039;s assassination and served nearly a full term.</p><p><br /></p><p>His political rise took place in the not-quite-squeaky-clean New York political machine, where he had a reputation for cronyism and allegedly demanded kickbacks from workers to support the Republican Party. So he shocked many observers by becoming a reformer in office, ushering in the civil-service commission to crack down on the rampant spoils system. Even Mark Twain said it would be &quot;hard to better&quot; his Administration.</p><p><br /></p><p>But Arthur&#039;s do-gooder streak didn&#039;t particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his party&#039;s nomination for re-election. Historians suspect he didn&#039;t campaign very aggressively for it, as early in his term he had learned — but kept secret — that he had a fatal kidney disease. He died two years later after leaving office.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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