Unveiling the Enigma President Hayes' Role in Shaping America

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 ... 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. One of the most persistent legends of American history is that. President Rutherford B. Hayes, as one of his first official acts, with. Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States and oversaw the end of the rebuilding efforts of the Reconstruction. 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 was given the nickname "The Great Unknown" because he was not well known in the Republican Party. In fact, he was the compromise candidate ... Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. A staunch abolitionist from Ohio, he was also a brevet ... RUTHERFORD B. HAYES Nineteenth President • 1877-81, Rutherford Hayes Rutherford B. Hayes. In one of the most bitterly contested elections in ... Flaws in the Constitution make subversion of a free and fair election possible. Most Americans are blissfully ignorant of the potential for ... Serving in the years after the Civil War, Rutherford B. Hayes, the nation's 19th president, supported African American rights, including the ...