He got in with the Gambino Family sometime in the 1940's and got made sometime in the 1950's. I'm not sure when he got promoted to capo but he was a major earner for the Family and never did any prison time.

He become a capo under Carlo Gambino and held that rank until his retirement (I assume he retired?)

Why didn't he become a Underboss or a Consigliere?

I guess this was by his own design..

According to Sammy Gravano, Arcuri was a very smart man who liked to make his money with as less attention as possible. I think he didn't have the ambition to be on the administration because it would increase scrutiny from LE. Don't forget that being a capo, especially in those days, is very lucrative by itself. Aside from more power, an administration post doesn't necessarily bring more money. A guy like Mikey Scars never had the ambition to be any higher than capo for these exact reasons..

Joe's father was a captain, his godfather was trafficante, he controlled local 1018, joe was acting consig, for a bit pete took him down

Was he acting consig while the official consig Jo Jo was doing time for trying to infiltrate the video poker machine industry in New Orleans?
I think Jo Jo did time for that from 1995-1998
Maybe Arcuri was only filling in while Jo Jo was away.

Greg depalma told fbi jack falcone joe a and jimmy brown officated his sons induction ceromony in 1992. So john sr held him in some high esteem. Think jimmy brown was acting underboss around that time to.

Joe must have been acting consig at the time. John went away in 1992 and put his son and half the fucking Gambino capos into a ruling committee, I guess half of them had titles like acting UB and acting consig.

BROWN was never acting after gotti, on the 5 man panel, joe a. was acting around 98 ,99 ish.

Joe would have been 85 years old when he got promoted to acting consig.
There is no quit in him.