Career of Rutherford Hayes - Lawyer, Soldier, Politician, Statesman Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1865-67
Governor of Ohio, 1868-72
Governor of Ohio, 1876-77
Place of Death - Rutherford Hayes died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, Ohio
Rutherford Hayes was buried in Spiegel Grove State Park, Fremont, Ohio
Next President: President James Garfield

Major Events during his presidency

• Compromise of 1877 (End of Reconstruction)

• Bland-Allison Act (1878)
• Pronounced the necessity of creating an American controlled canal in Panama (1880)

Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was President Rutherford Hayes

• Description of President Rutherford Hayes - Height 5 feet 8.5 inches

• Rutherford Hayes was raised by his widowed mother
• Nickname - “Dark-Horse President,” “Rud”
• Rutherford Hayes Age at Inauguration - 54 years old
• Many claim that the reason why Rutherford B. Hayes became president was that he agreed to the Compromise of 1877 that officially ended Reconstruction
• Rutherford Hayes was a teetotaler
• Rutherford Hayes was wounded five times in the war
• Following his retirement Rutherford B. Hayes worked for equal educational opportunities for all children and the prison reform movement
• Rutherford Hayes Age at Death - 70 years old
• Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was Rutherford Hayes