Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Electoral Commission, sometimes referred to as the Hayes-Tilden or Tilden-Hayes Electoral Commission, was a temporary body created by the United States Congress on January 29, 1877, to resolve the disputed United States presidential election of 1876. Democrat Samuel J. Tilden and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes were the main contenders in ...
The center is supported by the private foundations, the Ohio Historical Society and Hayes Presidential Center Inc. The library holds the 12,000 volume personal library of Rutherford B. Hayes , as well as materials relating to his military and political career, particularly of his presidency from 1877 to 1881. [ 1 ]
The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes began on March 4, 1877, when Rutherford B. Hayes was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1881.Hayes became the 19th president, after being awarded the closely contested 1876 presidential election by Republicans in Congress who agreed to the Compromise of 1877.
Trump finished Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses with a 30-percentage point victory that set a Republican record for the state without an incumbent in the race.
Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Peter Cooper Greenback Green Smith Prohibition Margin State Total State electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % total votes cast % Alabama: 10 102,989 59.98 10 68,708 40.02 – – – – – – – −34,281 −19.97 171,699 2.04% AL Arkansas: 6 58,086 ...
Even before his election, Hayes had pledged not to run for a second term, leaving the path to the White House open in 1880. [15] His cabinet selections alienated many party leaders as well, deepening the growing divide within the Republican party between forces loyal to New York Senator Roscoe Conkling and those loyal to Maine Senator James G ...
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (/ ˈ r ʌ ð ər f ər d / ⓘ; October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881.A staunch abolitionist from Ohio, he was also a brevet major general for the Union army during the American Civil War.
An incumbent House Democrat from Connecticut is locked in a tight race for reelection against her Republican challenger, a new poll shows. The survey, released Tuesday from Emerson College Polling ...