Rutherford B. Hayes A President Amidst Reconstruction and Reform

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 ... Ari Hoogenboom's masterful life of Hayes definitively answers those questions and shows why our nineteenth president deserves far greater recognition. Hayes won the Republican nomination for president and faced the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Samuel Tilden (1814-1886) in the presidential election. It ... Hayes became the 19th president, after being awarded the closely contested 1876 presidential election by Republicans in Congress who agreed to the Compromise of ... The election of Rutherford B. Hayes remains the single most disputed presidential outcome in American history—even more than the elections ... 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. 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. 19. Rutherford B. Hayes. President from 1877 to 1881. Read his full biography. Official engraved Presidential Portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes; Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877–1881). Item Number: BEP19. In retirement, Rutherford B. Hayes thought hard about how to help African Americans but made his greatest contribution almost by accident.