General Information:
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- Chester A. Arthur had been the twenty-first President of the nation with no Vice President for his only term.
- Term as President lasted from 1881 to 1885.
- Served as a Quartermaster General in the Union Army during the Civil War.
- Arthur was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party.
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- The "Star-route"Scandal takes place involving United States postal officials receiving bribes in exchange for awarding postal delivery contracts in southern and western areas.
- The ratification of the Geneva Convention of 1864..
- The signing of the Edmunds Act, an act which excludes bigamists and polygamists from voting and holding office.
- The revision of the Chinese Exclusion Act, an act which maintains the ban on Chinese citizenship and reduces the period of non-immigration to ten years.
- The passing of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
- The establishment of "standard time."
- The passing of the Alaskan Government Act.
- The establishment of the Bureau of Labor.
- The presentation of the Statue of Liberty.
- The passing of the Contract Labor Law, an act which virtually outlaws alien contract labor.