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Article: Chester Arthur's birthplace also in doubt: ; No records exist to prove he was born in Vt., not Canada as opponents claimed
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 17, 2009
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FAIRFIELD, Vt. - Finding the "birthplace" of President Chester A.
Arthur is easy: Turn left at Town Hall and its Chester A. Arthur
Conference Room, go past Chester's Bakery and turn right on Chester
A. Arthur Road.
Nearly five miles up the winding two-lane country road, past
rolling hills and dairy farms, is the tiny Chester A. Arthur
Historic Site, proclaiming the spot where the nation's 21st
president was born in a cottage.
Or was he?
Nearly 123 years after his death, doubts about his U.S.
citizenship linger, thanks to lack of documentation and a political
foe's claim that Arthur was really born in Canada - and was
therefore ineligible for the White House, where he served from 1881
to ...