The Nation thought the Electoral College “might very profitably be dispensed with,” to avoid a repeat of the election debacle. Rutherford B. Hayes. Photo via Library of Congress. By signing up ...

Rutherford B. Hayes was unable to combat the violence, as most of the 25,000 soldiers in the federal army were deployed in the West. The economic crisis beginning in 1873 deepened, resulting in the ...

Rutherford B. Hayes. How Hayes—by most historical accounts, a man who chaired an unremarkable presidency from 1877 to 1881 that was remembered mainly for introducing telephones and Easter Egg ...

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 ...