What is your opinion of Chester A. Arthur?

Chester Alan Arthur, who served as the 21st president of the United States, has gone down in history as "The Forgotten President." Many people have never heard of him, and even those who have would be hard-pressed to list any of his achievements in office. Nevertheless, the general consensus among historians is that Arthur was a faithful public servant who always strove to do what was best for the country. This is entirely a matter of opinion, of course, but on the whole I would agree with this assessment.
Arthur lived at a time when corruption was rampant in American political life, and yet he somehow managed to remain above the fray, maintaining a reputation for personal and political integrity which didn't always sit well with members of his own party, who were not exactly renowned for their own probity.
Arthur sought to inject his own high standards of integrity into the political system by reforming the civil service. Though the reforms were modest, they nonetheless represented a significant advance on the previous spoils system, in which graft and corruption were endemic. The greater professionalization of the Federal government to which Arthur's reforms led undoubtedly had a positive long-term impact on the governance of the United States, and for that reason more than any other, successive generations should be grateful to "The Forgotten President."