When James was born in 1831 ... for the collection of papers of the President for posterity. Garfield's successor, Chester Arthur, however, burned most of his papers the day before he died ...

On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man wearing a black slouch hat and a tattered dark suit crept up behind President James ... was Garfield’s own vice president, Chester A. Arthur.

Born: October 5, 1830, in Fairfield, Vermont... "Arthur is president now," declared James Garfield's assassin. A cog in the New York party machine, upon his presidency, Arthur revealed an ...

Chester Alan Arthur, born in Franklin County in 1829 ... which details the 1881 assassination of President James A. Garfield. Arthur was vice president under Garfield and, following Garfield ...