Hinman failed to explain why Arthur would have fabricated these records and the biographical information he provided to newspapers to conceal a Canadian birth when the only thing being born in Canada might possibly affect was Arthur's eligibility for the presidency, which no one at the time of his birth or in the years between his birth and his nomination for vice president in 1880 had any reason to think he would aspire to.

^ $10,000 in 1870 is equal to $214,289 in present terms.[69]

^ $50,000 in 1871 is equal to $1.13 million in present terms.[69]

^ Charles K. Graham filled Merritt's former position.[98]

^ Biographer George Howe takes this exchange at face value,[113] but later biographers suspect it may be apocryphal.[114]

^ Before the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Senators were elected by state legislatures.

^ Conkling and Pratt were ultimately denied re-election, being succeeded by Elbridge G. Lapham and Warner Miller, respectively.

