Chester eh Arthur was the 21st President of the United States of America. He did nothing. Arthur was the son of Irish-born preacher William Arthur and Vermont-born Malvina Stone Arthur. Most official references list him as having been born in Fairfield in Franklin County, Vermont on October 5, 1829. But Arthur sometimes claimed to have born in 1830. His father had initially migrated to Canada, where he and his wife at one point owned a farm about 80 miles north of America. This makes Arthur the least American President in history, with JFK coming a close second.