When he was nominated by the Republican Party for president in 1876, Hayes' resume included service as a Civil War officer, a congressman and a governor of Ohio. Projecting a moral and honest ...

Hayes shared his Methodist wife’s abolitionist views and defended a number of escaped slaves in court. When the Civil War broke out ... chest pains, Rutherford B. Hayes died on January 17 ...

A back-room deal. The Hayes-Tilden election was so controversial it spawned today’s vote counting process. In 1876, a decade after the U.S. Civil War, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes competed ...

Major Acts: Because of government corruption, Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated major efforts at reforming the nation’s civil service. Hayes incorporated more humane policies toward Native Americans and ...

Library of Congress On election night, Republican presidential candidate and Ohio governor Rutherford B. Hayes ... was a war hero who had fought in the U.S. Army during the Civil War.