Chester Arthur

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Chester Arthur

On September 20, 1881, upon the death of President Garfield, Vice President Arthur received a group at his home in New York City to take the oath of office, administered by New York Supreme court Judge John R. Brady. the next day he again took the oath of office, adminstered by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, in the Vice President's Office in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.