Rutherford Hayes, 18th President of the United

Rutherford Hayes, 18th President of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. Rutherford B. Hayes lost the 1876 general election by approximately 250, 000 popular votes, but the electoral vote was deadlocked by contested election in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina. The Great Compromise of 1877, granted these states 20 electoral votes to Hayes, which the Democrats accepted in exchange for ending Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South. 1881 oil on canvas portrait by Eliphalet Andrews (BSIC_2020_12_55)

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