Rutherford B. Hayes Research Paper

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"I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people” (Kelly, “Quotes of Rutherford B. Hayes”). Rutherford B. Hayes had a reputation as a man of great morals and great character (Hoogenboom, American President- Rutherford B. Hayes). He was fitting to repair the country after the damage from the Civil War. In 1849, Rutherford moved to Cincinnati. As an opposer of slavery, he joined the newly formed Republican Party. In 1864, while Hayes was on the battlefield fighting in the Civil War, he was nominated for Congress by the Party and won. When the war ended in 1865, Hayes took his seat as a United States House of …show more content…
Hayes"). In 1876 two people running for President Rutherford B. Hayes a Republican and Samuel J. Tilden a Democrat, as the first ballot came back it indicated that Tilden was victorious. Tilden won the popular vote with 4,284,020 and had Hayes, 4,036,572.Although Tilden had 184 electoral votes these votes decided who will become the President. Hayes only 165 electoral vote for him, he was 20 ballots away. Voters of the three Southern states a one Western state has not been encountered. The 20 electoral vote dispute one state was Oregon and 19 from that still retained the Republican controlled the boards, Florida (4) Louisianan (8) and South Carolina (7). Both of the parties claimed victorious The Democrat and Republican. Hayes was elected because the Democrats' used fraud, violence and intimidation in the Southern states. They tossed out all the Democratic votes for Hayes to be elected to win in all three states. The Democrats submitted their own list for Tilden. In Oregon, Hayes clearly won, but the Democratic governor had to manage to confuse things by sending one elector in Tilden's favor. The Electoral College controversy would take it on for some months, not evening, reaching the resolution until it was almost the eve of the of the inauguration that is scheduled on March 5, 1877.