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Document 78864

CHESTER A. ARTHUR
Sworn in as 21st U.S. President in New York City.
Executive Mansion Card signed: "Chester A. Arthur" as President, 4x2¾. Engraved at upper right: "Executive Mansion,/Washington." After President Garfield's death, Vice President Arthur was sworn in as President at his residence, 123 Lexington Avenue, New York City, at 2 A.M. on September 20, 1881. From Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography (New York: 1887): "In person, Mr. Arthur was tall, large, well-proportioned, and of distinguished presence. His manners were always affable. He was genial in domestic and social life, and warmly beloved by his personal friends. He conducted his official intercourse with unvarying courtesy and dispensed the liberal hospitalities of the Executive Mansion with ease and dignity, and in such a way as to meet universal commendation from citizens and foreigners alike." Arthur was just 57 when he died in 1886, less than two years after leaving office. Fine condition.

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