December 6, 2008 6:36 PM
[I have collaborated on this with my sister and historian Greg Dehler, author of "Chester Allan Arthur", Published by Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2006 ISBN 1600210791, 9781600210792 192 pages. ]
I’ve been forwarded the actual naturalization record for William Arthur on microfiche, obtained from the Library of Congress. He was naturalized in New York State and became a United States citizen in August 1843.
Chester Arthur perpetrated a fraud as to his eligibility to be Vice President by spreading various lies about his parents’ heritage. President Arthur’s father, William Arthur, became a United States citizen in August 1843. But Chester Arthur was born in 1829. Therefore, he was a British Citizen by descent, and a dual citizen at birth, if not his whole life.
He wasn’t a “natural born citizen” and he knew it.
April 26th, 2010 at 7:26 am
[...] Further, With only two exceptions, every U.S. president who was born after 1787, was born in the United States, of parents who were both U.S. citizens. The two exceptions were Chester Arthur and Barack Obama. When Chester Arthur ran for office in 1880, he lied to newspaper reporters about his family history (and later burned most of his family records), thereby obscuring the fact that, at the time of his (Chester’s) birth, his father (William Arthur) was British subject, not a U.S. citizen (Historical Breakthrough – Chester Arthur). [...]