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Chester Arthur's opponents tried to spread rumors he was born in Canada or Ireland.
Really?! That's news to me. Do you have something from the period to back up your assertion or is everybody just supposed to "take your word for it"?

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And if you would, make it something other than this BS from ...@WikipediaAfter Arthur was nominated for Vice President in 1880, his political opponents suggested that he might be constitutionally ineligible to hold that office.[8] A New York attorney, Arthur P. Hinman, apparently hired by his opponents, explored rumors of Arthur's foreign birth.[9] Hinman initially alleged that Arthur was born in Ireland and did not come to the United States until he was fourteen years old, which would make him ineligible for the Vice Presidency under the United States Constitution's natural-born citizen clause.[9][note 3] When that story did not take root, Hinman spread a new rumor that Arthur was born in Canada, but this claim also failed to gain credence.[9]