Chester A. Arthur
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N 44° 50.149 W 072° 51.585
18T E 669165 N 4966940
Twenty First President, took office after President Garfield died.
Waymark Code: WMYR5
Location: Vermont, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2006
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Arthur demonstrated as President that he was above factions within the Republican Party, if indeed not above the party itself. Perhaps in part his reason was the well-kept secret he had known since a year after he succeeded to the Presidency, that he was suffering from a fatal kidney disease. He kept himself in the running for the Presidential nomination in 1884 in order not to appear that he feared defeat, but was not renominated, and died in 1886. Publisher Alexander K. McClure recalled, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected."
This is but one of two markers.
The other waymark is :
WMYR2
State Historic Site