where was president chester arthur born?
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 The family 's frequent moves later spawned accusations that Chester Arthur was not a native @-@ born citizen of the United States . When Arthur was nominated for vice president in 1880 , a New York attorney and political opponent , Arthur P. Hinman , initially speculated that Arthur was born in Ireland and did not come to the United States until he was fourteen years old . Had that been true , opponents might have argued that Arthur was constitutionally ineligible for the vice presidency under the United States Constitution 's natural @-@ born @-@ citizen clause . When Hinman 's original story did not take root , he spread a new rumor that Arthur was born in Canada . This claim , too , failed to gain credence . 

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 Arthur 's sister , Mary Arthur McElroy , served as White House hostess for her widowed brother ; Arthur became Washington 's most eligible bachelor and his social life became the subject of rumors , though romantically , he remained singularly devoted to the memory of his late wife . His son , Chester Jr . , was then a freshman at Princeton University and his daughter , Nell , stayed in New York with a governess until 1882 ; when she arrived , Arthur shielded her from the intrusive press as much as he could . 

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 Franklin D. Roosevelt , later President of the USA , stayed at the Aldwyn Tower Hotel while convalescing from an illness at the age of 7 . 

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 Arthur returned to being a lawyer with the help of additional contacts made in the military , he and the firm of Arthur & Gardiner flourished . Even as his professional life improved , however , Arthur and his wife experienced a personal tragedy as their only child , William , died suddenly that year at the age of three . The couple took their son 's death hard , and when they had another son , Chester Alan Jr . , in 1864 , they lavished attention on him . They also had a daughter , Ellen , in 1871 . Both children survived to adulthood . 

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 Plans for Arthur 's marriage began before his third birthday ; he was installed as Prince of Wales two years later . He grew especially close to his siblings Margaret and Henry , Duke of York , with the latter of whom he shared some tutors . At the age of eleven , Arthur was formally betrothed to Catherine of Aragon , a daughter of the powerful Catholic Monarchs in Spain , in an effort to forge an Anglo @-@ Spanish alliance against France . Arthur was well educated and , contrary to modern belief , was in good health for the majority of his life . Soon after his marriage to Catherine in 1501 , the couple took up residence at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire , where Arthur died six months later of an unknown ailment . Catherine would later firmly state that the marriage had not been consummated . 
