Rutherford B. Hayes 1868 Signed OHIO STATE Historic Document National Importance

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Rutherford B. Hayes 1868 Signed OHIO STATE Historic Document National Importance:
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Ohio State Justice of the Peace DocumentSigned 1868 Rutherford B Hayes.The reverse has a stam and is signed by county clerk to notarize the signatures.
The top of the document has two tears up to 1.5 inches long at the fold. This will be folded back and boxed to protect it during shipping.
Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President of the United States

Beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, Rutherford B. Hayes brought to the Executive Mansion dignity, honesty, and moderate reform.

To the delight of the Woman\'s Christian Temperance Union, Lucy Webb Hayes carried out her husband\'s orders to banish wines and liquors from the White House.

Born in Ohio in 1822, Hayes was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School. After five years of law practice in Lower Sandusky, he moved to Cincinnati, where he flourished as a young Whig lawyer.

He fought in the Civil War, was wounded in action, and rose to the rank of brevet major general. While he was still in the Army, Cincinnati Republicans ran him for the House of Representatives. He accepted the nomination, but would not campaign, explaining, \"an officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer... ought to be scalped.\"

Elected by a heavy majority, Hayes entered Congress in December 1865, troubled by the \"Rebel influences ... ruling the White House.\" Between 1867 and 1876 he served three terms as Governor of Ohio.

Safe liberalism, party loyalty, and a good war record made Hayes an acceptable Republican candidate in 1876. He opposed Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York.

Although a galaxy of famous Republican speakers, and even Mark Twain, stumped for Hayes, he expected the Democrats to win. When the first returns seemed to confirm this, Hayes went to bed, believing he had lost. But in New York, Republican National Chairman Zachariah Chandler, aware of a loophole, wired leaders to stand firm: \"Hayes has 185 votes and is elected.\" The popular vote apparently was 4,300,000 for Tilden to 4,036,000 for Hayes. Hayes\'s election depended upon contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. If all the disputed electoral votes went to Hayes, he would win; a single one would elect Tilden.

Months of uncertainty followed. In January 1877 Congress established an Electoral Commission to decide the dispute. The commission, made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats, determined all the contests in favor of Hayes by eight to seven. The final electoral vote: 185 to 184.

Northern Republicans had been promising southern Democrats at least one Cabinet post, Federal patronage, subsidies for internal improvements, and withdrawal of troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.

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