Pres. James A. Garfield’s vice president was Chester A. Arthur, who was widely regarded as the protégé of Roscoe Conkling, the Republican boss of New York; both men were members of the Stalwart faction of the party. Arthur worked with his mentor at the Republican National Convention of 1880 to secure the renomination of Ulysses S. Grant for a third term as president. When the convention deadlocked between the conservative Stalwart and liberal Half-Breed factions, delegates turned to dark-horse candidate Garfield, and Arthur was nominated vice president as a conciliatory gesture to Conkling and the Stalwarts.