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PRESIDENTS DAY Rutherford Birchard Hayes Nineteenth President 1877-1881 Born: October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio. Education: Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio and Harvard Law School. Occupation: Lawyer, politician. Served as officer during Civil War. Religion: No formal affiliation. Family life: Married Lucy Webb in 1852; she was the first president's wife with a college degree. She graduated from the Wesleyan Female College in Cincinnati at 18. They had seven sons and a daughter; three of them died in infancy. They celebrated their silver wedding anniversary in the White House. She died in 1889, she is buried in Fremont. Political career: Elected to United States House of Representatives at the end of his Army career. Governor of Ohio, 1868-72 and 1876-77. Nominated by Republicans in 1876, to run against Samuel J. Tilden; the election was the most disputed in history. It was decided by a special bipartisan commission in March of 1877. Resigned after one term and worked for various social reforms. Highlights of his presidency: Elected by an election commisssion despite receiving a minority of popular votes. Removed federal troops from the South. Urged civil service reform.

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Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History HAYES, RUTHERFORD B. , nineteenth president of the United States. Born in Ohio, Hayes graduated from Kenyon College at the top of his class in 1842 and three years later from Harvard Law School. After beginning law practice in Lower Sandusky, Ohio, Hayes in 1850 moved to Cincinnati, where he married Lucy Ware Webb, an ardent abolitionist who helped make him a moderate reformer. Beginning in 1853 he defended captured runaway slaves. Later he joined the Republican party, entered politics, and from 1858 to 1861 was Cincinnati's city solicitor. Outraged by the South's attack on Fort Sumter, Hayes volunteered for the Union army in 1861, served with conspicuous gallantry throughout the war, and emerged a major general and member-elect of Congress. In Congress from 1865 to 1867, he supported Radical Republican Reconstruction measures before resigning to run successfully for governor of Ohio. Reelected in 1869, Hayes counted as his greatest achievements Ohio's ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment and the establishment of Ohio State University. After retiring briefly, Hayes ran successfully for a third term as governor in 1875 and became Ohio's favorite-son candidate for the presidential nomination in 1876. Hayes won the Republican nomination over his more prominent rivals because his record as a war hero, a Radical Republican congressman, and a reform governor would help him carry his crucial state. Hayes defeated the Democratic nominee, Samuel J. Tilden, after Congress, through an electoral commission, resolved a four-month dispute (pitting Democratic violence against Republican fraud) over who had carried South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida. Tilden always believed that in a fair election he would have carried those and other southern states, although there is no way of knowing if he was correct.

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Entries Publication Data Dedication Advisory Board ... World Civilizations The Great American History Fact-Finder Hayes, Rutherford B , nineteenth president of the United States . Born in Delaware, Ohio, Hayes graduated from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School and served in the Civil War as a general. He was governor of Ohio from 1868 to 1872 and the Republican candidate for president in the election of 1876 . His opponent, Democrat Samuel Tilden, won the most popular votes and led in the electoral college 184-165. But fraud and violence in three southern states and doubts about an Oregon elector's eligibility left 20 electoral votes in question. Congress created a special electoral commission to determine the winner, and Hayes won by 1 electoral vote. During the Hayes administration, all federal troops were removed from the South as part of the Compromise of 1877 , thus ending military Reconstruction . Hayes was not renominated in 1880. Site Map I Partners I Press Releases I Company Home I Contact Us Terms and Conditions of Use Privacy Statement , and Trademark Information

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United States Embassy Stockholm The Presidents of the United States Rutherford B. Hayes Nineteenth President 1877-1881 [Lucy Ware Webb Hayes] November 2001 Fun Fact: In 1879, the first telephone was installed in the White House. At first it was hardly used, because there weren't many other phones in Washington to call. Fast Fact: Rutherford B. Hayes gained the Presidency by a margin of only one electoral vote. Biography: Beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, Rutherford B. Hayes brought to the Executive Mansion dignity, honesty, and moderate reform. To the delight of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Lucy Webb Hayes carried out her husband's orders to banish wines and liquors from the White House. Born in Ohio in 1822, Hayes was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School. After five years of law practice in Lower Sandusky, he moved to Cincinnati, where he flourished as a young Whig lawyer. He fought in the Civil War, was wounded in action, and rose to the rank of brevet major general. While he was still in the Army, Cincinnati Republicans ran him for the House of Representatives. He accepted the nomination, but would not campaign, explaining, "an officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer... ought to be scalped." Elected by a heavy majority, Hayes entered Congress in December 1865, troubled by the "Rebel influences ... ruling the White House." Between 1867 and 1876 he served three terms as Governor of Ohio.

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Hayes, Rutherford B., Hayes, 1877 By courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Documents in full RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES (b. Oct. 4, 1822, Delaware, Ohio, U.S.d. Jan. 17, 1893, Fremont, Ohio), 19th president of the United States (1877-81), who brought post-Civil War Reconstruction to an end in the South and who tried to establish new standards of official integrity after eight years of corruption in Washington, D.C. He was the only president to hold office by decision of an extraordinary commission of congressmen and Supreme Court justices appointed to rule on contested electoral ballots. A successful Cincinnati lawyer during the decade preceding the American Civil War (1861-65), Hayes represented defendants in several fugitive-slave cases and became associated with the newly formed Republican Party. After combat service with the Union Army he was elected to Congress (1865-67) and to the Ohio governorship (1868-76). In 1875, during his third gubernatorial campaign, Hayes attracted national attention by his uncompromising advocacy of a sound currency backed by gold. The following year he became his state's favourite son at the national Republican nominating convention, where a shrewdly managed campaign won him the presidential nomination. Hayes's unblemished public record and high moral tone offered a striking contrast to widely publicized accusations of corruption in the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77). An economic depression, however, and Northern disenchantment with Radical Reconstruction in the South combined to give Hayes's Democratic opponent, Samuel J.

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Home Famous and Fascinating Women in History Frontiersmen and Women The World's Greatest Compose rs Famous Women Spies Great Authors of the World Generals and other Noteworthy People from the Civil War The Presidents of the United States ... Everything Maryland! Rutherford B. Hayes by John T. Marck RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES 19th President Term- March 4, 1877 to March 4, 1881 Republican Party Birth: Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822. Ancestry: English, Scotch Marriage: Cincinnati, Ohio, December 30, 1852 to Lucy Ware Webb who was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, August 28, 1831. Lucy died in Fremont, Ohio, June 25, 1889 and is buried in "Spiegel Grove", Fremont, Ohio. Children: Birchard Austin (1853-1926); Webb Cook (1856-1934); Rutherford Plat (1858-1927); Joseph (1861-1863); George Crook (1864-1866); Fanny (1867-1950); Scott (1871-1923); Manning (1873-1874). Home: Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio. Education: Academy at Norwalk, Ohio; Isaac Webb's school at Middletown, Connecticut; Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; Harvard Law School. Religion: No specific denomination. Attended Methodist.

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NAME: Rutherford Birchard Hayes BORN: October 4, 1822 PARENTS: Rutherford Hayes and Sophia Birchard Hayes COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS: born...Delaware, Ohio (Delaware County) EDUCATION: graduated, Kenyon College, valedictorian of his class graduated, Harvard Law School, 1845 OCCUPATION: lawyer soldier, rank of Major United States congressman Ohio Governor, 1868-1872, 1876-1877 President of the United States March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881 (one term, Republican) 19th President Hayes Presidential Center White House Entry Internet Public Library Return to Main Page ... Return to County Index FAST FACTS: During the Civil War, Hayes served with the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT: Hayes' administration saw the end of the Reconstruction Era in the South. image source: unknown

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External Links load in new windows Ohio Historical Society History Day Ohio History Central History Works ... Field Trips > NW Region > Hayes Presidential Center Register online Print Form (Adobe Acrobat PDF) NOTE: Requires Adobe Acrobat ® Reader The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio is home of the nation's first presidential library and museum. The Center is a tribute to Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States. It opened to the public May 30, 1916. Today the three-story Hayes Museum/Library complex showcases those same artifacts, as well as President Hayes' diaries, presidential papers, books and family possessions. The displays chronicle Hayes' life emphasizing his influence and impact on the nation, the State of Ohio, the presidency, the Civil War and the period of American life known as the Gilded Age. The Hayes Museum is host to numerous exclusive exhibitions. In addition to being a repository for primary sources related to President Hayes, the Hayes Research Library is home to one of the area's largest genealogy collections. The Hayes Home is a stately 31-room brick mansion constructed in three stages between 1859 and 1889. The Hayes Home contains original furnishings belonging to the President and his family. Guides take visitors through two floors of the home, explaining its history and offering insights into the lives of President and Lucy Hayes.

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Rutherford B. Hayes [Categories: Methodists, 1893 deaths, 1822 births, U.S. Army generals, Governors of Ohio, People from Ohio, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Republican Party presidential nominees, Presidents of the U.S.] Rutherford B. Hayes Order: 19th President Term of Office: Followed: (18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)) Ulysses S. Grant Succeeded by: (20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)) James Garfield Date of Birth October 4, 1822 Place of Birth: (Click link for more info and facts about Delaware, Ohio) Delaware, Ohio Date of Death: January 17, 1893 Place of Death: (Click link for more info and facts about Fremont, Ohio) Fremont, Ohio (The wife of a chief executive) First Lady (Click link for more info and facts about Lucy Webb Hayes) Lucy Webb Hayes Occupation: (A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice) lawyer (An organization to gain political power) Political Party (A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas) Republican (An executive officer ranking immediately below a president; may serve in the president's place under certain circumstances)

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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1877 Fellow-Citizens: We have assembled to repeat the public ceremonial, begun by Washington, observed by all my predecessors, and now a time- honored custom, which marks the commencement of a new term of the Presidential office. Called to the duties of this great trust, I proceed, in compliance with usage, to announce some of the leading principles, on the subjects that now chiefly engage the public attention, by which it is my desire to be guided in the discharge of those duties. I shall not undertake to lay down irrevocably principles or measures of administration, but rather to speak of the motives which should animate us, and to suggest certain important ends to be attained in accordance with our institutions and essential to the welfare of our country. At the outset of the discussions which preceded the recent Presidential election it seemed to me fitting that I should fully make known my sentiments in regard to several of the important questions which then appeared to demand the consideration of the country. Following the example, and in part adopting the language, of one of my predecessors, I wish now, when every motive for misrepresentation has passed away, to repeat what was said before the election, trusting that my countrymen will candidly weigh and understand it, and that they will feel assured that the sentiments declared in accepting the nomination for the Presidency will be the standard of my conduct in the path before me, charged, as I now am, with the grave and difficult task of carrying them out in the practical administration of the Government so far as depends, under the

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