Chester Alan Arthur Puns

Question: On a scale from 1 to 5, how would you rate 21th President Chester Alan Arthur?

Finding the averages of this sub's opinions of each President. I'll being doing 'the tier list that will create the least argument' at the end. I'll also just make a post about interesting things relating to the final scoring, such as patterns, and how the list compares to other polls made by professionals.

Averages:

1. George Washington - 4.72 (Almost Perfect)
2. Abraham Lincoln - 4.67 (Almost Perfect)
3. James Monroe - 4.15 (Very Good)
4. Thomas Jefferson - 4.04 (Very Good)
5. James K. Polk - 3.75 (Good)
6. James Madison - 3.67 (Good)
7. James A. Garfield - 3.55 (Good)
8. Ulysses S. Grant - 3.49 (Mildly Good)
9. John Quincy Adams - 3.21 (Mildly Good)
10. William Henry Harrison - 3.06 (Mildly Good) [Most of the votes were probably jokes but oh well]
11. Rutherford B. Hayes - 3.00 (Absolutely Okay) [It was exactly 3 I did the math thrice that's funny]
12. Zachary Taylor - 2.98 (Mildly Bad)
13. John Adams - 2.72 (Mildly Bad)
14. Andrew Jackson - 2.59 (Mildly Bad)
15. Millard Fillmore - 2.58 (Mildly Bad)
16. Martin Van Buren - 2.24 (Bad)
17. John Tyler - 2.21 (Bad)
18. Andrew Johnson - 1.59 (Very Bad)
19. Franklin Pierce - 1.52 (Very Bad)
20. James Buchanan - 1.34 (Almost Irredeemable)

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Major Foriegn Policy Events Under President Chester A Arthur (1881-1885)

Immigration Act of 1882

Burlingame Treaty

Chinese Exclusion Act

Also,Vote solely on thier foriegn policy during thier presidency, not anything else that happend then.

Also,If I missed any major foriegn policy events, please tell me in the comments and I will add them.

Previous Presidents Foriegn Policy Approval Ratings

Geroge Washington-98.6%

John Adams-78.8%

Thomas Jefferson-89.9%

James Madison-76.9%

James Monroe-98.4%

John Quincy Adams-81.9%

Andrew Jackson- 60.4%

Martin Van Buren-37.1%

John Tyler-59.0%

James Polk-83.9%

Zachary Taylor 90.6%

Millard Fillmore 57.2%

Franklin Pierce 40.2%

James Buchanan 9.9%

Abraham Lincoln 94.0%

Andrew Johnson 75.5%

Ulysses S Grant 90.8%

Rutherford Hays 83.4%

Chester Arthur 65.8%

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Party: Republican

Home State: New York

Term: 1881-1885

July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on a Saturday, the President of the United States, James Abram Garfield, was shot by a lunatic. He would died on September 19th, 1881 with his vice president, Chester Arthur, assuming office. He would soon become a changed man. A former pro-spoils system puppet for New York politicians, he would destroy the system he once used to give himself minor fame.

DOMESTIC POLICY

Civil Service Reform

When Arthur joined politics, he was merely a puppet for the New York machines of the time, that were exploiting the spoils system instituted by President Jackson. His reputation was a poor one, as he was only known as a man who abused the system he would later destroy. He was also pet pals with Roscoe Conkling, the face of the spoils system in the 1870s and 1880s.

As president, Arthur surprised everybody by rising above partisanship.  He turned against the Stalwarts and worked to unify his party, made many non-partisan appointments, and continued the work of Presidents Hayes and Garfield for civil service reform.  He supported the prosecution of a series of fraud cases in the Post Office Department.  In 1883, he signed the Pendleton Act, which removed some Federal jobs from the spoils list, forbade compulsory donations from office holders, and authorized the creation of a bi-partisan Civil Service Commission to enforce the law.  Patronage did not end in 1883, but the Pendleton Act was a landmark in creating a professional, non-partisan civil service.

The Pendleton Act partially got passed as quickly as it did because of Garfield's assassination. Civil service reformers established the National Civil Service Reform League and undertook a major public campaign for reform, arguing that the spoils system had played a major role in the assassination of Garfield. Arthur's signing of the law is often seen as his most remarkable accomplishment.

Chinese Exclusion

Chinese Exclusion was a growing issue in the 1870s and by the 1880s, many urged Arthur to promote it. The previous president, Hayes (disregarding Garfield), opposed Chinese Exclusion however eventually settled on a compromise with the Angell Treaty of 1880. In 1883, Horace F. Page introduced a bill to ban Chinese Immigrants from the U.S. Page previously authored the Page Act of 1875.

Arthur, like Hayes, opposed Chinese Exclusion and thought that the bil

This is an approval rating chart of how the subreddit approves or disapproves of a Vice President.

#Note: If a Vice President that is later the president is on here, don’t take their actual presidency into account. Only count their Vice presidency.

Today’s poll is on Chester A. Arthur, the Vice President to James A. Garfield from March 1881, until he took over in September 1881, when Garfield died from a wound infection.

Do you approve or disapprove of Chester A. Arthur as VP?

#Past Results:

• John Adams: 77.0% approved
• Thomas Jefferson: 55.4% approved
• Aaron Burr: 29.0% approved
• George Clinton: 63.0% approved
• Elbridge Gerry: 38.5% approved
• Daniel D. Tompkins: 55.8% approved
• John C. Calhoun: 26.4% approved
• Martin Van Buren: 57.4% approved
• Richard M. Johnson: 39.0% approved
• John Tyler: 50.0% approved
• George M. Dallas: 75.0% approved
• Millard Fillmore: 48.5% approved
• William R. King: 52.9% approved
• John C. Breckinridge: 19.7% approved
• Hannibal Hamlin: 85.5% approved
• Andrew Johnson: 32.7% approved
• Schuyler Colfax: 47.2% approved
• Henry Wilson: 75.2% approved
• William A. Wheeler: 74.1% approved

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If Arthur Roth lived in Elmore, do you think he and Alan Keane would be very close friends?

BTW, there's also a short film adaptation of Pop Art on YouTube.

Arthur vetoed the original Chinese Exclusion bill, which would set the ban to 20 years. A new compromise bill was then introduced which lowered the ban to 10 years — which Arthur signed

Things to consider

• Chinese Exclusion was broadly popular and had bipartisan support. There would be a political cost (for both Congressmen and the President) to oppose it. However it also had fierce opponents in the East and obviously Asian American populations
• Arthur was criticized for the initial veto in the Western states. Would vetoing the new bill cost him too much valuable political capital to focus on other items on his agenda?
• Congress could not override the initial veto. Would they band together to override the second veto on the new bill, which they already compromised on? Chinese Exclusion still has a plausible chance of passing

Comments on why you voted the way you did are highly appreciated

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