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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Ohio / USRutherford Birchard HAYES
(1822-1893)
HAYES, Rutherford
Birchard, a Representative from Ohio and 19th President of
the United States; born in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio, October
4, 1822; attended the common schools, the Methodist Academy in
Norwalk, Ohio, and the Webb Preparatory School in Middletown,
Conn.; graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in August 1842
and from the Harvard Law School in January 1845; admitted to the
bar on May 10, 1845, and commenced practice in Lower Sandusky (now
Fremont); moved to Cincinnati in 1849 and resumed the practice of
law; city solicitor 1857-1859; commissioned major of the
Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, June 27, 1861;
lieutenant colonel October 24, 1861; colonel October 24, 1862;
brigadier general of Volunteers October 9, 1864; brevetted major
general of Volunteers March 3, 1865; elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1865,
to July 20, 1867, when he resigned, having been nominated for
Governor of Ohio; Governor 1868-1872; unsuccessful candidate for
election to the Forty-third Congress; again elected Governor and
served from January 1876 to March 2, 1877, when he resigned, having
been elected President of the United States; was inaugurated March
5, 1877, and served until March 3, 1881; died in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January 17, 1893; interment in Oakwood Cemetery;
following the gift of his home to the State of Ohio for the Spiegel
Grove State Park, was reinterred there in 1915.
Bibliography
Hoogenboom, Ari Arthur. The Presidency of Rutherford B.
Hayes. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988; Trefousse,
Hans Louis. Rutherford B. Hayes. New York: Times Books,
2002; Williams, T. Harry, ed. Hayes: The Diary of a President
1875-1881, Covering the Disputed Election, the End of
Reconstruction, and the Beginning of Civil Service. New York:
D. McKay Co., [1964].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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