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2 unusual facts about Peter M. Arthur


Peter M. Arthur

The next year Arthur and the BLE had to deal with the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, in which the BLE allied itself with the Workingmen's Party of the United States.

Peter McArthur was born in 1831 in Paisley, Scotland (he would change his name to Peter M. Arthur later in life).


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.

Allied sovereigns' visit to England

Bryant, Arthur; (1950) The Age of Elegance: 1812-1822, London: Collins

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.

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.

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!

Ernst B. Haas

He had a son, Peter M. Haas, who is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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 K. Arthur

He won an Academy Award for Best Short Film in 1956 for the film The Bespoke Overcoat.

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.

Judith Arthy

There were also for her supporting roles in the films The Shuttered Room and Arthur! Arthur!.

Kung Fu Dino Posse

Kung Fu Dino Posse is an animated television series created by Peter M. Lenkov and produced by Sunwoo Entertainment, Sunwoo Asia-Pacific, Nerd Studios and Cookie Jar Entertainment.

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.

M. B. W. Tent

Her books have also received praise from other authors and mathematicians like William Dunham, Peter Lax, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Charles Ashbacher and Peter M. Neumann.

Peter Brant ll

Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut he is the son of Billionaire art collector, businessman and polo player Peter M. Brant and model Stephanie Seymour.

Peter Donahue

Peter M. Donohue, Roman Catholic priest and president of Villanova University

Peter M. Fischer

He is the founder and director of the Swedish Jordan Expedition (since 1989), the Palestinian-Swedish Expedition at Tall al-Ajjul, Gaza (co-director Dr. M. Sadeq since 1999).

Peter Fischer conducted excavations at Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley since 1989 (16 seasons, state 2013) and Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, since 2010 (state 2013).

Peter M. Haugan

Peter Mosby Haugan (born 1958) is a Norwegian Scientist and Director of the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen.

Peter M. Liba

He stepped down as lieutenant-governor just before the federal election of 2004, and was replaced by outgoing Liberal MP John Harvard.

Redfern Fokker Dr.1

The aircraft plans were developed using Peter M. Bowers' triplane plans, Smithsonian plans and original plans from Reinhold Platz, the original German designer of the Dr.1.

Robert P. Arthur

William Drummond, the colonial Governor and a principal player in Bacon’s Rebellion, was the first man hanged in Virginia for insurrection and a possible relative of the Scottish poet, William Drummond.

Robert Schwentke

Schwentke directed the action-comedy crime film R.I.P.D., based on the comic book Rest in Peace Department by Peter M. Lenkov.

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.

Shoot A Line

In 1982, Shoot A Line was bought by Peter Brant and sent to race in the United States where she was trained by LeRoy Jolley.

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.


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