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John Quincy Adams (1825–1829) was the first U.S. president to have notable facial hair, with long sideburns. [3] But the first major departure from the tradition of clean-shaven chief executives was Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865), [4] [5] [6] who was supposedly (and famously) influenced by a letter received from an eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell, to start growing a beard to improve ...
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.
Opened in 1916, the Rutherford B. Hayes Center Library was one of the first presidential libraries. [1] 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 ...
Later December to include holiday lights in Spiegel Grove, tours of mansion.
[b] [10] First president to be inaugurated in New York City. [2] First president to fill the entire body of the United States federal judges; including the Supreme Court. [11] First president to deliver a State of the Union address (1790). [12] First president to have a first lady older in age. [c] [13]
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; S. Spiegel Grove This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, at 08:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Spiegel Grove, also known as Spiegel Grove State Park, Rutherford B. Hayes House, Rutherford B. Hayes Summer Home and Rutherford B. Hayes State Memorial was the estate of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, located at the corner of Hayes and Buckland Avenues in Fremont, Ohio. Spiegel is the German and Dutch word for ...
They chose the reforming Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, who had been gradually building support during the convention until he finished second on the sixth ballot. On the seventh ballot, Hayes was nominated for president with 384 votes, compared to 351 for Blaine and 21 for Benjamin Bristow.