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HAYES, Rutherford Birchard, a Representative from Ohio and 19th President of the United States;
born in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio, October 4, 1822; attended the common
schools, the Methodist Academy in Norwalk, Ohio, and the Webb Preparatory
School in Middletown, Conn.; graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in
August 1842 and from the Harvard Law School in January 1845; admitted to the
bar on May 10, 1845, and commenced practice in Lower Sandusky (now Fremont);
moved to Cincinnati in 1849 and resumed the practice of law; city solicitor
1857-1859; commissioned major of the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, June 27, 1861; lieutenant colonel October 24, 1861; colonel October
24, 1862; brigadier general of Volunteers October 9, 1864; brevetted major
general of Volunteers March 3, 1865; elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1865, to July 20,
1867, when he resigned, having been nominated for Governor of Ohio; Governor
1868-1872; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-third Congress;
again elected Governor and served from January 1876 to March 2, 1877, when he
resigned, having been elected President of the United States; was inaugurated
March 5, 1877, and served until March 3, 1881; died in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January 17, 1893; interment in Oakwood Cemetery; following the
gift of his home to the State of Ohio for the Spiegel Grove State Park, was
reinterred there in 1915.
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Rutherford B. Hayes. New York: Times Books, 2002; Williams, T.
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Hayes: The Diary of a President 1875-1881, Covering the Disputed
Election, the End of Reconstruction, and the Beginning of Civil
Service. New York: D. McKay Co., [1964].
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