ARTHUR, CHESTER, President . Letter signed ("Chester A. Arthur") as President, to Edwards Pierrepont, Washington, D.C., 24 May 1884. 2 pages, 8vo, written on rectos only of two sheets of Executive Mansion stationery, with original envelope . Fine. ANTICIPATING HIS RENOMINATION (WHICH NEVER CAME). A warm letter from the President to a friend, Ulysses S. Grant's former Attorney General, nine days before the 1884 national Republican convention. A New York Republican delegation, of which Pierrepont was a member, had met at Cooper Union and recommended Arthur be renominated for President: "...As to the meeting at the Cooper Union, I cannot refrain from expressing my grateful acknowledgements to you and the other gentlemen who so kindly took part in it. Whatever the future may determine, I shall always remain deeply sensible of this generous expression of confidence on the part of those whose regard I so highly esteem..." At the National Republican Convention delegates, concerned at Arthur's recent committment to governmental reform, deserted the incumbent President and turned to James G. Blaine, who won the nomination on the fourth ballot, only to lose the 1884 election to Democrat Grover Cleveland.
ARTHUR, CHESTER, President . Letter signed ("Chester A. Arthur") as President, to Edwards Pierrepont, Washington, D.C., 24 May 1884. 2 pages, 8vo, written on rectos only of two sheets of Executive Mansion stationery, with original envelope . Fine. ANTICIPATING HIS RENOMINATION (WHICH NEVER CAME). A warm letter from the President to a friend, Ulysses S. Grant's former Attorney General, nine days before the 1884 national Republican convention. A New York Republican delegation, of which Pierrepont was a member, had met at Cooper Union and recommended Arthur be renominated for President: "...As to the meeting at the Cooper Union, I cannot refrain from expressing my grateful acknowledgements to you and the other gentlemen who so kindly took part in it. Whatever the future may determine, I shall always remain deeply sensible of this generous expression of confidence on the part of those whose regard I so highly esteem..." At the National Republican Convention delegates, concerned at Arthur's recent committment to governmental reform, deserted the incumbent President and turned to James G. Blaine, who won the nomination on the fourth ballot, only to lose the 1884 election to Democrat Grover Cleveland.
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