Hearing that there were greater opportunities in Cincinnati, Hayes moved there in 1849 and eventually developed a successful law practice. An opponent of slavery, he also became active in the newly formed Republican Party, which was organized in the 1850s to oppose the expansion of slavery to U.S. territories.

Kenyon College1842Harvard Law School

Hayes, in full Rutherford Birchard Hayes, (born October 4, 1822, Delaware, Ohio, U.S.—died January 17, 1893, Fremont, Ohio), 19th president of the United States (1877–81), who brought post-Civil War Reconstruction to an end in the South and who tried to establish new standards of official integrity after eight years of …

Ulysses S. Grant

He was in poor health near the end of his term and died of cholera shortly after he left office in 1849. Rutherford B. Hayes also chose not to run for a second term in 1880, following through on his earlier promises to serve only one term as president.

William A. Wheeler1877–1881

Rutherford B. Hayes – Administration

Republican Party

Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Hayes received 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184 electoral votes.

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March to September 1881.

Lucretia Garfieldm. 1858–1881