Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (* 4. October 1822 in Delaware, Ohio; † 17. January 1893 in Fremont, Ohio) was 19. President of the United States of America (the USA) of 4. March 1877 up to the 3. March 1881. Vice-president was William A. Wheeler.

The presidency election from the 1876 was decided not immediately. Hayes' challenger, Samuel J. , The majority of the voices in the country won tildes, however it came in front to substantial discrepancies into four Federal States, all in the Federal State Florida. ThatCongress used a commission, that was scarcely dominated of republicans for clarifying the result and which victory in all four States of Hayes awarded: of 15 voices 8 for Hayes, 7 for tildes, exactly after party man shank. The democratic party was not thereby content and itever louder becoming threatening calls gave generally speaking country, like “tildes, or blood!” Finally tildes gave way, after the republicans it promised to slow the reconstruction down of the south after the devastating war of secession (1861 - 1865).

Hayes, before its time as a president from 1868 to 1872 as well as from 1876 to 1877 governor of the State of Ohio, banished alcohol and tobacco from the white house on operation of its wife as a second president. Lucy Webb Hayes thereupon as Lemonade Lucy scoffs.

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