21st President?

Question

I have to do a 4 page essay on our 21st president. Chester A Arthur

I have write about

[*] life prior to becoming president.
[*] Major Accomplishments while president
[*] Life after presidency

I have no cluewhere to find this information!!!!!!!!!

I tried wikipedia. but it confuses me.

Im having such a hard time finding information on Arthur. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

I classify Chester A. Arthur as a Gap President of the Great Power Saeculum. See

http://jimvb.home.mindspring.com/presipage.htm

for meaning of these terms. This means that he filled in a gap - in his case, between the peaceful, rather sterile Golden Age of Rutherford Hayes and the tumult of Grover Cleveland's Expansive Presidency with the Haymarket Riot and other labor unrest. He was not elected as President, but rather succeeded James Garfield who was shot shortly after he became President. So he served as caretaker of the position without any notable innovations.

You can find a biography of Chester Arthur at http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html or at other places on the Internet if you Google for him. A book on all the Presidents may help. And by the way, what do you think of that crazy mustache he wore?

Answer 2

Interesting topic! Arthur, to me, is one of our more fascinating late-19th century presidents - but it doesn't surprise me that you're having trouble finding information about him, because he also took great pains to shelter his private life from the public. In fact, just before his death, he had most of his Presidential papers destroyed. He was also once quoted as saying "The personal life of the President is nobody's damned business."
Lucky for us, however, there IS a complete collection of material about the 21st President in the form of the outstanding C-Span series American Presidents. And best of all - it can all be accessed for free on the American Presidents website. The website includes video of the original C-Span show which included interviews with Arthur experts, as well as a terriffic four-minute biographical opening segment.
Here is the link:
http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=21
Hope this helps...

Answer 3

Look up USA President Chester A. Arthur or type into www.history.com Chester A Arthur and get an anwer that wont confuse you it is a better site.

Answer 4

I would start with the White House website.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html

Try the reference section at your library.

Answer 5

A twenty first century techniques could be defined as a techniques born in the twenty first century. If that's the type you define Obama and his mindless followers i will consider you. possibly we could continuously wait till he matures and acts responsibly earlier we enable him to hold the controls. he's properly on his thank you to ruining our united states because of the fact he nevertheless thinks he's a community agitator.

Answer 6

try the official gov't website:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html

Answer 7

this will help you http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html