President Hayes A Beacon of Unity in a Fractured Era

The Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is offering special tours of the historic Hayes Home focusing on the president and first lady's love story. Born on October 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio,the former Civil War general served a single term in the US House of Representatives from 1865 and 1867. 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. Hayes won the Republican nomination for president and faced the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Samuel Tilden (1814-1886) in the presidential election. It ... Rutherford Hayes became the 19th president of the United States in 1877. He looked back on his wartime service as the best years of our lives. Hayes' life can be a complicated and sensitive topic, but it may be time to reexamine whether the 19th president deserves to be the fall guy for the failure of ... The Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 62, sponsored by State Senator Bill Reineke (R-Tiffin), to designate October 4 as Rutherford B. Hayes Day in Ohio. On March 4, 1877 the term of President Ulysses S. Grant came to an end, but his successor, Rutherford B. Hayes was not to be inaugurated until the next day. In the effort I shall make to accomplish this purpose I ask the cordial cooperation of all who cherish an interest in the welfare of the country, trusting that ... He opposed inflation and favored the gold standard over paper money. Hayes, alongside Congress, passed laws that retired most paper money, and over time, ...