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Document 17021 CHESTER A. ARTHUR Signed by the Vice President just four weeks before President Garfield's death. Scarce Manuscript LS: "C.A. Arthur" as Garfield's Vice President, 1p, 5x8. On stationery headed: "No. 155 Broadway,/New York", 1881 August 22. To W. Coventry Waddell Esq., New York. In full: "I beg to thank you for your kind letter of the 19th inst." At the Republican National Convention held in Chicago June 2-5, 7-8, 1880, Ohio Congressman and Senator-elect James A. Garfield was nominated for President and New York lawyer Chester A. Arthur, a member of the Stalwart wing of the Republican Party, was nominated for Vice President. The Stalwarts supported the spoils system and opposed civil service reform. On July 2, 1881, as President Garfield was passing through the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac depot in Washington, he was shot by a disappointed office seeker and lawyer, Charles Guiteau, who supported New York Senator Roscoe Conkling and the Stalwart wing of the Republican Party. Garfield died on September 19, 1881, four weeks after this letter was written, and Arthur became President. In 1884, President Arthur sought the Republican presidential nomination but finished second to James G. Blaine, who became the Republican candidate for President and lost to Grover Cleveland. Letters signed by Arthur during his six and a half months as Vice President, his only elective office, are scarce. Tape stain touches words of text and the "CAA" of signature. Folds, one vertical touches the "A" in Arthur. Lightly creased. SEE IF DOCUMENT 17021 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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