Rutherford Hayes

BIRTH NAME
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
POLITICAL PARTIES
Whig (until 1854), Republican

EDUCATION
Kenyon College B.A. 1842; Harvard Law School LL.B 1845

VITALS
5 ft 8.5 in / 175 lbs

CAREER
1845-50 Practiced law in Lower Sandusky, Ohio
1850-58 Practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio
1858-61 City solicitor, Cincinnati
1861-64 Major, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
1865 Promoted to brigadier general, then brevet major general
1865-67 U.S. Representative, Ohio
1868-72 Governor of Ohio
1872-76 Businessman, Fremont, Ohio
1876-77 Governor of Ohio

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 7, 1876
Popular: Samuel G. Tilden 4,288,546 (51%) Hayes 4,034,311 (48%)
Electoral: Hayes 185 Tilden 184

VICE PRESIDENT
William A. Wheeler (1877-81)

ADMINISTRATION
Reconstruction ends, Railroad strike (1877); Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act (1878)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
John Marshall Harlan, William B. Woods

FIRST LADY
Lucy Ware Webb (1877-81)

POST PRESIDENCY
1887-93 Board of Trustees, Ohio State University

“He serves his party best who serves the country best.”
Inaugural address, March 4, 1877

Portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes by Daniel Huntington, 1884.