You are incorrect. Arthur's father was a British subject at the time of his birth.
Also, don't give me the standard birther nonsense that Arther somehow attempted to cover this up. Arther did try to cover up the year in which he was born, and attempted to make himself look younger, but he never did anything to hide his father's citizenship at the time of his birth.
In point of fact, he couldn't have. The information was in the public domain. His father obtained naturalized citienship long after Chester was born, and naturalization records are a matter of public record.
You're just ticked that you called Birthers cranks when Jim Rob is one and I pinged him. Get over it.
The twenty-first President of the United States, Chester Arthur, was a British subject at the time of his birth, and it is respectfully submitted that he was therefore not a "natural born citizen" of the United States. Whether under laws of 1829 he was even a "citizen" would be better known to this Honorable Court than to Applicant. It was further revealed that in 1880 Chester Arthur perpetrated a fraud which concealed his Vice Presidential eligibility dilemma by uttering various lies about his father's emigration from Ireland, his father's age, and his parents' residence in Canada. It's important for Applicant to show that Chester Arthur's birth as a British subject was concealed by Chester so that the Court does not take this fact as precedent as to the issue of whether Barack Obama is Constitutionally eligible to be President. Quite the opposite, it appears Chester Arthur's intentional obfuscation of family history is evidence his British birth caused him to believe he was ineligible for the office of Vice President. But this isn't the first time Chester Arthur has been accused of being a British subject. During the 1880 Presidential campaign, a man named A.P. Hinman alleged that Arthur was born in Ireland or Canada. Hinman lobbied the press for support while searching relentlessly for Chester Arthur's birth records but never found them. Perhaps, because all of the attention had been focused on that issue, history has previously neglected to reveal the issue of William Arthur's failure to naturalize before Chester was born. The definitive biography of Chester Arthur's life is “Gentleman Boss” by Thomas Reeves. Since Chester Arthur burned his papers around the time of his death, this biography fills many gaps with interviews of family members and authentic documents such as the Arthur family Bible. "Gentleman Boss” establishes, on page 4, that Chester Arthur’s father William was born in Ireland, 1796, and emigrated to Canada in 1818 or 1819. His mother Malvina was born in Vermont. His parents met in Canada and were married in 1821. They had their first child, Regina, in Dunham, Canada on March 8, 1822. By no later than 1824, the Arthur family had moved to Burlington, Vermont. Chester Arthur was their fifth child, and he was born in Fairfield, Vermont on October 5, 1829. From “Gentleman Boss”, page 202 and 203: “…Hinman was hired, apparently by democrats, to explore rumors that Arthur had been born in a foreign country, was not a natural-born citizen of the United States, and was thus, by the Constitution, ineligible for the vice-presidency. By mid-August, Hinman was claiming that Arthur was born in Ireland and had been brought to the United States by his father when he was fourteen. Arthur denied the charge and said that his mother was a New Englander who had never left her native country — a statement every member of the Arthur family knew was untrue.” In the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, an article containing an interview with Chester Arthur regarding Hinman’s accusations was published on August 13, 1880. In that article, Chester Arthur defended himself as follows: “My father, the late Rev. William Arthur, D.D., was of Scotch blood, and was a native of the North of Ireland. He came to this country when he was eighteen years of age, and resided here several years before he was married.” This was another blatant lie. His father emigrated from Ireland to Canada at the age of 22 or 23. William Arthur didn’t come to the United States until sometime between March 1822 - when his first child was born in Dunham, Canada - and March 1824 - when his second child was born in Burlington, Vermont. The youngest he could have been when he came to Vermont was 26. On August 16, 1880 Chester Arthur told the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper that at the time of his birth, his father was forty years old. Another blatant lie. His father would have been only thirty-three years old when Chester was born. In that same article he lied that his father settled in Vermont and reiterated the lie that William came here at the age of eighteen. This age discrepancy was exposed in the August 19, 1880 edition of the Brooklyn Eagle in an article written by Hinman . It's also important to note that Chester Arthur changed his year of birth, according to Reeves, sometime between 1870 and 1880, from 1829 to 1830. He also burned his personal papers near the time he died. Chester Arthur's attempt to obfuscate family history during the 1880 campaign provides context that he believed his birth as a British subject made him ineligible to the office of Vice President.