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She immigrated to the U.S. in 1930 after a few of her brothers and sisters emigrated there and Canada, she was one of thousands of Scottish young workers who were looking for a better future. She had three children (Theodore, Herbert, and Mary) and had to work very hard to support and grow her young family when her own husband passed away, 10 years after getting married.
She was the youngest of 10 siblings and was raised in a Scottish-Gaelic household with English being her second language. After thirty-six ballots the delegates turned to a dark horse—James Garfield.
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Party bosses then turned to selecting a vice-presidential running mate to round off the ticket.
At age 22 he decided to immigrate to the U.S. to start a new life with his aunt in Pennsylvania where he met his wife Elizabeth Spear and soon started a family. After fighting in several battles against the British, Jackson started his presidential aspirations, becoming president for two terms from 1829 to 1837. Or, as Americans might say: not bad for a Canadian, huh?
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Two other sources indicate that the actual year of birth was 1829.” One of those two sources, though unnamed by the USIS office, alleged that Chester Arthur changed the year of his birth “out of vanity” alone, but this seems highly unlikely.
A son—likely William Chester Alan Arthur—was born in his grandparents’ house in Dunham Flats in Lower Canada in 1829, though there is no record of his birth in present-day Dunham, Quebec.
He also attempted to reduce tariffs, cut the federal debt, and modernize the U.S. Navy.
He looked every inch the aristocratic father figure Americans looked for in their chief executives, too. They met when they both were 24 years old and doctorate students at the University of California Berkeley. He died in New York City on November 18, 1886.
At the time of his death, he was looked upon as the most effective U.S.
president since Lincoln. (Records of the period were destroyed in a fire.)
The next year a second son—likely Chester Abell Arthur—was born in North Fairfield, Vermont, but he died in infancy. He was the consummate backroom politician who, early on, caught the eye of the big-city political bosses. She met her husband, Fred Trump, a prominent real estate developer at a party and got married in 1936.
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One faction sought a third term for Ulysses S. Grant, but its efforts were in vain. Chester Arthur’s father was named after the Protestant King William of Orange.
In 1818, at age twenty-two, William Arthur left Ireland forever and sailed from Derry to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, in search of a better life. He supervised more than one thousand officials who collected about two-thirds of the nation’s revenue from tariffs, and enjoyed an annual salary of $40,000 a year.
Arthur was fired by President Rutherford B.
Hayes in 1878 as a symbolic gesture in the president’s campaign against the spoils system. He turned out to be a reformer, which burned his bridges with backroom kingmakers. The U.S. Constitution states that to be able to hold a position in the highest office in the world someone needs to be born on U.S. soil, but that doesn’t apply to their parents.
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being the first African American and Asian American woman to become Vice President and the highest-ranking female in the U.S. government. Again, no official record exists of the death, though relatives later attested the child’s body was sold to a medical school as a cadaver for dissection.
In my search for evidence regarding Arthur’s birth, the office of the secretary of state in Vermont’s capital, Montpelier, responded: “There is no record in this office showing the births and deaths of the children of William Arthur and Malvina Arthur from Jan.
1, 1822, to Jan. 1, 1841.” Similarly, the town clerk in Fairfield wrote: “[I] do not find recorded, therein, between the years A.D. 1825 and A.D. 1835, the birth of any child named Chester A. Arthur.”
Could the future U.S. president have appropriated his brother’s birthplace so he could claim U.S. citizenship?
An in-law of the Stone family wrote later: “C.A.
On July 2, 1881, he was wounded by an assassin’s bullet in Washington.