Thank you for the correction and enlightenment. I was more thinking of Cruz’a mother, since the post I replied to referred to Arthur’s father.
It should also be noted that Chester Arthur was evidently not a U.S. citizen, and he is reported to have made a remark on one occasion saying there could be some doubt about his having U.S. citizenship. Due to his father being a British subject from Northern Ireland and Canada and his U.S. citizen mother automatically expatriating to become a British subject due to her marriage to a British subject in Quebec, Canada, Chester Arthur’s parents wer both British subjects at his birth. Because both of his parents were British subjects at his birth, Chester Arthur did not qualify to acquire U.S. citizenship at birth, because the laws that conferred such citizenship for the children born in the United States with alien parents were not enacted until after the Chester Arthur Administration. This circumstance strongly suggests the reasons why Chester Arthur and Justice Gray played such influential roles in trying to force the Wong Kim Ark decision to favor immigrants. It also explains why Chester Arthur was so diligent in destroying his personal papers that could have revealed the deception surrounding his true foreign citizenship.