Chester A. Arthur
1829 CE–1886 CE · Washington, D.C.
Chester A. Arthur was the 21st President, serving from 1881 to 1885 as a Republican. He succeeded to the office after the assassination of James A. Garfield, having been elected Vice President. He signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, which established merit-based hiring for many federal jobs.
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Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.
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- James A. Garfield· 1831 CE–1881 CE
- Lobengula· –1894 CE
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- Queen Victoria· 1819 CE–1901 CE
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