3-071-187 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new President of the United States, General Chester A. Arthur, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. 'Upon the death of President Garfield, the Vice-President, General Chester A. Arthur, succeeded in due legal course to the Presidency of the United States...General Arthur...was lately at the head of one of the best-known legal firms in New York, that of Arthur, Philips, Knevals, and Ransom. His personal character, according to the testimony of political opponents, is without reproach. He was left a widower two years ago, but has a married sister to do the honours of the White House'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.