In an election decided by the House of Representatives, Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democratic candidate Samuel Jones Tilden in the most controversial election in American history to date. Tilden ...

Taps is played at the conclusion of the wreath-laying ceremony. At right, members of the 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company G, with flag, and Robert D. Pollock, commander, the Ohio Commandery ...

Born: October 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio... Hayes' reputation as a man of integrity proved a welcome relief from Andrew Johnson's contentious and Ulysses Grant's scandal-ridden administrations ...

Servin would be honoring her country by visiting the resting place of its greatest hero—the 19th American president, Rutherford B. Hayes. How Hayes—by most historical accounts, a man who ...

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Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as the 19th president of the United States in the Red Room of the White House. Two days later, ...