LC control no. | n 50002601 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886 |
Variant(s) | Arthur, Chester A. (Chester Alan), 1829-1886 Arthur, Chester Alan, Pres., U.S., 1830-1886 |
See also | United States. President (1881-1885 : Arthur) |
Birth date | 1829-10-05 |
Death date | 1886-11-18 |
Found in | Letter from P.T. Heffron, acting chief, LC Manuscript Div., 5/28/81 (evidence in T.C. Reeves' biography is "nearly conclusive" that Arthur was born 10/5/1829; Reeves maintains that Arthur, for complicated reasons of his own, purposely changed the date of his birth by one year) Witter, E. Chester A. Arthur, c1988: CIP t.p. (Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States) Chester Arthur, 2021: t.p. (Chester Arthur) page 6, etc. (Chester Alan Arthur; born on Oct. 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont; started his own law practice in New York City in 1856; became James A. Garfield's vice president in 1881; after Garfield was assassinated, Arthur became President on Sept. 20, 1881; died on Nov. 18, 1886) |
Associated language | eng |
Invalid LCCN | no 98036181 |