Hayes' Presidency A Window into Post-Civil War America

Rutherford B. Hayes was a remarkable President, not only for his efforts to re-unite the country after the Civil War, but also for the many 'firsts' attributed ... I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 28th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer. The following pardons were stolen from the National Archives-Philadelphia by Shawn Aubitz in 2002. They were signed by the President of the United States. He opposed inflation and favored the gold standard over paper money. Hayes, alongside Congress, passed laws that retired most paper money, and over time, ... Rutherford B. Hayes is more famous in Paraguay than in the US. The 19th US President lends his name to a city, region, school, and annual festival. The first biography of Hayes in nearly fifty years, Hoogenboom's book recreates the rapidly changing world of Victorian America as experienced by one of its most reflective and perceptive figures. Notably, on September 14, 1862, Hayes led a charge against a confederate entrenchment and was shot through his left arm. After tying a handkerchief above the ... Rutherford B. Hayes: Life in Brief. Rutherford B. Hayes, America's 19th President, served as chief executive at the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of ... Rutherford Hayes was born in Ohio and spent nearly his whole life in the state, attending Kenyon College, working as a lawyer in Lower Sandusky and Cincinnati. On March 4, 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes became President of the United States. His inauguration had been in dispute with a close election with Samuel Tilden.