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Rutherford B. Hayes
19th president - 1 term (1877-1881)
Republican (3rd out of how many 18)
Born: October 4, 1822
Death: January 17, 1893
Home State: Delaware, Ohio (2nd out of 7)
Religion: Methodist (2nd out 3)
College: Kenyon College (1842) and Harvard Law School (1845)
Other Political Offices Held:
Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1865-67
Governor of Ohio, 1868-72
Governor of Ohio, 1876-77
Married to Lucy Ware Hayes (1839-1889)
Children:
- Birchard Austin Hayes (1852-1926)
- Webb Cook Hayes (1856-1934)
- Rutherford Platt Hates (1858-1927)
- Joseph Thompson Hayes (1861-1863)
- George Crook Hayes (1864-1866)
- Fanny Hayes (1867-1950)
- Scott Russell Hayes (1871-1923)
- Manning Force Hayes (187301874)
Vice President: William A. Wheeler (1877-81)Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- William M. Evarts (1877-81)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- John Sherman (1877-81)
- Secretary of War
- George W. McCrary (1877-79)Alexander Ramsey (1879-81)
- Attorney General
- Charles Devens (1877-81)
- Postmaster General
- David M. Key (1877-80)Horace Maynard (1880-81)
- Secretary of the Navy
- Richard W. Thompson (1877-80)Nathan Goff, Jr. (1881)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Carl Schurz (1877-81)
Opponent Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York in Presidential Election
- In 1877 Federal troops withdrew from the South ending Reconstruction. Striking railroad workers and federal troops clashed.
- Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act was passed despite Hayes veto. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-BlandAll.html
- Signed the act that permitted women to plead before the Supreme Court.
- Was the first president to graduate from law school.
1 comment:
I know this is out of order. And so should you, by the way. But it was brilliantly labeled: Previous President. So, I hope this makes you put on your thinking caps. Now I have to go back to trying to find Teddy Bear.
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