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Rutherford B. Hayes

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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PRESIDENT HAYES

  • 19th President of the United States
  • (March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881)
  • Nickname: "Dark-Horse President"
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HIS HOME LIFE

  • Born: October 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio
  • Died: January 17, 1893, at Spiegel Grove in Fremont, Ohio
  • Father: Rutherford Hayes Mother: Sophia Birchard Hayes
  • Married: Lucy Ware Webb (1831-1889), on December 30, 1852
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Children: Birchard Austin Hayes (1853-1926); James Webb Cook Hayes (1856-1934); Rutherford Platt Hayes (1858-1927); Joseph Thompson Hayes (1861-63); George Crook Hayes (1864-66); Fanny Hayes (1867-1950); Scott Russell Hayes (1871-1923); Manning Force Hayes (1873-74)

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FUN FACTS

  • Religion: No formal affiliation
  • Education: Graduated from Kenyon College (1842) and Harvard Law School (1845)
  • Occupation: Lawyer
  • Political Party: Republican
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OTHER TITLES

  • Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1865-67
  • Governor of Ohio,1868-72
  • Governor of Ohio, 1876-77
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Presidential Election Results:
Year Popular Votes Electoral Votes
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes 4,036,572
185
Samuel J. Tilden 4,284,020
184

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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)

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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)

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OTHER FUN FACTS

  • Of the five presidents who served in the Civil War, Hayes was the only one to be wounded.
  • Arriving in San Francisco on September 8, 1880, Hayes became the first president to visit the West Coast while in office.
  • Mrs. Hayes was known as "Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve alcohol in the White House.
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FUN FACTS CONTINUED

  • He won the presidency by only one electorial vote.
  • The first White House telephone was installed, by Alexander Graham Bell himself, during the Hayes administration.
  • Hayes was the first president to graduate from law school.
  • Lucy Hayes was the first First Lady to have graduated from college.
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THE END!

Alec Kiser