History has provided no evidence that Roscoe Conkling, Chester Arthur, or any other political leader had a part in the shooting.
VOA: special.2010.04.22
Chester Arthur had been a successful lawyer.
VOA: special.2010.04.29
In 1962, a year after Ike relinquished the presidency, a poll by Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Sr. ranked him 22nd between ChesterA. Arthur, largely a presidential nonentity, and Andrew Johnson, impeached by the House and nearly convicted by the Senate.