Date

Dec 23 2024

Event

Death

19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes Death

Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States and oversaw the end of the rebuilding efforts of the Reconstruction.

• Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, having served also as an American representative and governor of Ohio. Hayes was a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings in the antebellum years.
• Born: October 4, 1822, Delaware, OH
• Died: January 17, 1893, Fremont, OH
• Spouse: Lucy Webb Hayes (m. 1852–1889)
• Years of service: 1861–1865
• Branch/service: United States Army (Union Army)
• Education: Kenyon College (1842), Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Norwalk Seminary
• Presidential term: March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881
• Vice president: William A. Wheeler (1877–1881)
• Spouse: Lucy Webb Hayes (m. 1852–1889)
• Children: Webb Hayes, Rutherford P. Hayes, Scott Russell Hayes,
• First president to hold a state Thanksgiving dinner.
• First president to hold the White House Easter Egg Roll.
• First president to have a telephone installed in the White House.
• First president to have a typewriter installed in the White House.
• First president to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office.
• First president to win the electoral vote but lose the popular vote.
• First president to win the election despite his opponent winning a majority of the vote.
• First president to be wounded in the American Civil War.