Hayes' Reconstruction Policy A Complex and Contentious Legacy

As two-time governor of Ohio, Hayes was a thoroughly unremarkable politician, and unoffensive enough to become the Republican nominee for president in 1876. But Rutherford B. Hayes was actually the first president whose family built a presidential library for him, so the Library of Congress doesn't have his papers ... Lucy Ware Webb Hayes served as First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881). Nicknamed. 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. Rutherford Hayes' Cabinet was largely composed of respected people with lots of accomplishments. Two of them led especially interesting lives. 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. There's one place where Hayes stands as a historical heavyweight: in the tiny South American nation of Paraguay. Hayes. Democrats agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become president in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the granting of home ... Hayes won the Republican nomination for president and faced the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Samuel Tilden (1814-1886) in the presidential election. It ... Flaws in the Constitution make subversion of a free and fair election possible. Most Americans are blissfully ignorant of the potential for ...