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Document 262921
CHESTER A. ARTHUR. Engraving signed: "Chester A. Arthur"
as President, 4¾x3½ card. Depicting the north portico of the Executive
Mansion with horse-drawn carriages and well-dressed men, women and children
on the road leading to the entrance. 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
Cyclopędia 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. Slightly stained.
Soiled. Mid-vertical fold just touches "r" in Chester.
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