Chester Alan Arthur
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Arthur received the Republican Party\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nomination for vice president in 1880, he admitted, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis is a higher honor than I have ever dreamt of attaining.\u00e2\u0080\u009d His nomination, as well as that of presidential nominee James A. Garfield, formed part of a political compromise to unite a bitterly divided party. When Arthur assumed the presidency in 1881 after Garfield\u00e2\u0080\u0099s assassination, he unexpectedly jettisoned his longtime political allegiances. Arthur even surprised his critics by rejecting the cronyism from which he had profited, fighting corruption in the postal system and signing a law that required meritbased exams for entrance into many civil service positions."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "In the early 1880s, the Corcoran Gallery of Art commissioned this portrait of the twenty-first president of the United States to augment its newly acquired collection of eminent personae. The portraitist George Peter Alexander Healy had created the original group of portraits for King Louis Philippe I of France."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en Fairfield, Vermont"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Al ser nominado por el Partido Republicano para la vicepresidencia en 1880, Chester A. Arthur admiti\u00c3\u00b3: \u00e2\u0080\u009cEste honor es m\u00c3\u00a1s de lo que jam\u00c3\u00a1s hubiera so\u00c3\u00b1ado\u00e2\u0080\u009d. Dicha nominaci\u00c3\u00b3n, como la del candidato presidencial James A. Garfield, fue parte de un arreglo pol\u00c3\u00adtico para unificar a un partido agriamente dividido. Al asumir la presidencia en 1881, tras el asesinato de Garfield, Arthur desech\u00c3\u00b3 inesperadamente sus antiguas alianzas pol\u00c3\u00adticas. Incluso sorprendi\u00c3\u00b3 a sus cr\u00c3\u00adticos al rechazar el favoritismo del que se hab\u00c3\u00ada beneficiado, adem\u00c3\u00a1s de combatir la corrupci\u00c3\u00b3n en el sistema postal y firmar una ley que requer\u00c3\u00ada ex\u00c3\u00a1menes basados en m\u00c3\u00a9ritos para muchos puestos de servicio p\u00c3\u00bablico."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "A principios de la d\u00c3\u00a9cada de 1880, la Galer\u00c3\u00ada de Arte Corcoran encarg\u00c3\u00b3 este retrato del vig\u00c3\u00a9simo primer presidente de Estados Unidos para aumentar su reci\u00c3\u00a9n adquirida colecci\u00c3\u00b3n de personajes eminentes. El retratista George Peter Alexander Healy hab\u00c3\u00ada creado el grupo original de retratos para el rey Luis Felipe I de Francia."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888]; Gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1884; Gift to NPG, 2019."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. 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