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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Trump has ordered work done on the Resolute Desk, which has been used by presidents beginning with Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. “A President, after election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks,” he ...