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The Oval Office
Because we can't have Gerry hopping about amongst the hedge rows!
Created on 2003-01-04 11:42:04 (#839149), last updated 2009-07-29
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Basic Info| Name: | Rutherford B. Hayes |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 05-18 |
| Location: | Corydon, Indiana, United States |
| Website: | The Vagabond Artist |
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anthony@vagabondartist.com Bio19th president of the U.S. (1877-81). Born in Delaware, Ohio, he practiced law in Cincinnati, representing defendants in several fugitive-slave cases and becoming associated with the new Republican Party. After fighting in the Union army, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1865-67). As governor of Ohio (1868-72, 1875-76), he advocated a sound currency backed by gold. In 1876 he won the Republican nomination for president. His opponent, S. Tilden, won a larger popular vote, but Hayes's managers contested the electoral-vote returns in four states, and a special Electoral Commission awarded the election to Hayes. As part of a secret compromise reached with Southerners (see Wormley Conference), he withdrew the remaining federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction, and promised not to interfere with elections there, ensuring the return of white Democratic supremacy. He introduced civil-service reform based on merit, incurring a dispute with R. Conkling and the conservative "stalwart" Republicans. At the request of state governors, he used federal troops against strikers in the railroad strikes of 1877. Declining to run for a second term, he retired to work for humanitarian causes
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