1.20: #22 Chester A. Arthur
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Chester Arthur was not supposed to become president. But following the death of President James Garfield in 1881, the Republican Stalwart Arthur suddenly found himself in the highest office in the land. But despite being a product of the spoils system himself, Arthur would go his own direction and support reform efforts to bring to a close the system of corruption that helped define the Gilded Age of American politics.
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