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3 unusual facts about Chester A. Chesney


Chester A. Chesney

He entered the United States Air Force in June 1941 as a private and was discharged as a major in 1946 with service in the Pacific and European Theaters.

He served as assistant chief of special service, Veterans Administration, Hines, Illinois, in 1946 and 1947.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress.


32nd meridian west from Washington

The need for a separate national meridian for the United States gradually faded, and in 1884, U.S. President Chester A. Arthur called the International Meridian Conference in Washington which selected the meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich as the international Prime Meridian.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri

Legal scholar Robert M. Chesney, of Lawfare, speculated Al Nashiri would be detained, if acquitted, for at least several more years.

Alonzo B. Cornell

After the adjournment of the Senate in July 1878, Hayes suspended both the collector (Chester A. Arthur) and the naval officer, and their successors were finally confirmed.

Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Previous Assistant Secretaries since the position's creation, by recency, are Jendayi E. Frazer, Constance Berry Newman, Walter H. Kansteiner, III, Susan E. Rice, George Moose, Herman Jay Cohen, Chester A. Crocker, Richard M. Moose, William E. Schaufele, Jr., Nathaniel Davis, Donald B. Easum, David D. Newsom, Joseph Palmer II, G. Mennen Williams, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite.

Charles Henry Howard

Howard continued to hold special government appointments in his later life including Government Inspector of Indian Agencies under Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.

Ches Crist

He was named for Chester A. Arthur, who was President of the United States at the time of Crist's birth.

Chester A. Arnold

While collecting fossils with Alonzo W. Hancock in the Clarno Formation of Oregon in 1941, Arnold and Hancock recovered the most complete Miomastodon skull known to date.

Chester A. Dolan, Jr.

On November 8, Dolan and his outfit participated in the first Allied invasion of Casablanca along with General George S. Patton's Western Tank Force.

David Josiah Brewer

On March 25, 1884, Brewer was nominated by President Chester A. Arthur to the United States circuit court for the Eighth Circuit, to a seat vacated by George Washington McCrary.

Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge

While Cooper and his team are forced to perform the tasks, they discover that they - as is Mrs. Goodman - are mere pawns for a more dastardly plot: the Mexican revolutionary El Cortador's plan to assassinate the President of the United States!

Earle D. Chesney

Earle D. Chesney (born June 6, 1900 in Swanton, Nebraska; d. 1966) served with the Veterans Administration before joining the Eisenhower White House staff on March 4, 1954.

First International Conference of American States

But destiny intervened: President Garfield was assassinated on 19 September 1881 and the new President Chester A. Arthur, who was no friend of Blaine's, quickly removed him from the State Department.

George Washington Williams

In 1885, President Chester A. Arthur appointed Williams "Minister Resident and Consul General" to Haiti.

History of New England

They are, in chronological order: John Adams (Massachusetts), John Quincy Adams (Massachusetts), Franklin Pierce (New Hampshire), Chester A. Arthur (born in Vermont, affiliated with New York), Calvin Coolidge (born in Vermont, affiliated with Massachusetts), John F. Kennedy (Massachusetts), George H. W. Bush (born in Massachusetts, affiliated with Texas) and George W. Bush (born in Connecticut, affiliated with Texas).

James Barker Edmonds

Although he remained the board's Republican commissioner until 1885, when former Louisiana Senator Joseph Rodman West resigned from the presidency of the D.C. Board of Commissioners in 1883, President Chester A. Arthur nominated Edmonds to serve as the board's Democratic commissioner and its chair.

Leroy D. Thoman

The next year, after the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, President Chester A. Arthur nominated Thoman to be one of three members of the United States Civil Service Commission.

Lindenwood Park, St. Louis

Two nationally prominent Americans of the 1880s who are commemorated are General Winfield Scott Hancock, a Union general in the American Civil War and presidential nominee in 1880, and Chester A. Arthur, the Republican vice-president who succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of James A. Garfield in 1881.

Louis John Jennings

As editor he was responsible for the exposure of the Tweed Ring and subsequently received a letter from Chester A. Arthur assuring him that his services to the citizens of New York would not be forgotten.

Mount Darling

It was discovered on aerial flights from the West Base of the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, and named for Professor Chester A. Darling of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Robert Chesney

Robert M. Chesney, counter-terrorism expert and law professor at The University of Texas School of Law

Samuel F. Snively

At the time, Brewster was the United States Attorney General in the cabinet of Chester A. Arthur.

Samuel F. Tappan

Tappan was appointed during the Presidency of Chester A. Arthur to become the first superintendent of the United States Indian Industrial School in Genoa, Nebraska, in 1884-1885.

Second inauguration of Richard Nixon

Johnson thus became the sixth president who died during his immediate successor's administration, following George Washington (1799), James K. Polk (1849), Andrew Johnson (1875), Chester A. Arthur (1886) and Calvin Coolidge (1933), who died during the administrations of John Adams, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland (1st term), and Herbert Hoover, respectively.

Southern Exposition

U.S. President Chester A. Arthur opened the first annual exposition on August 1, 1883.

Tariff of 1883

President Chester A. Arthur appointed a commission in May 1882 to recommend how much tariff rates should be reduced.

The Price of Power

The film stars Giuliano Gemma as the hero Bill Willer who tries to get revenge against the killers of his father while at the same time trying to prevent an assassination plot against president James Garfield (played by Van Johnson, with José Suárez playing Vice President Chester A. Arthur) in 1881.

United States presidential election in New York, 1880

New York was won by the Republican nominees, Congressman James A. Garfield of Ohio and his running mate former Collector of the Port of New York Chester A. Arthur of New York.

William M. Wright

One of the final acts of outgoing President Chester A. Arthur, Wright's controversial commission received nationwide publicity and was opposed by U.S. Secretary of War Robert T. Lincoln on the grounds that someone who had not passed the program of instruction at West Point should not receive the same reward as those who had.

Zygolophodon

While collecting fossils in the Clarno Formation of Oregon during 1941, noted paleobotanists Alonzo W. Hancock and Chester A. Arnold recovered the most complete Zygolophodon skull known at the time.


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