Name: Rutherford B. Hayes
Party: Republican
Term Served: 1877–1881
Birth State: Ohio
Born: 10/4/1822
Died: 1/17/1893
Religion: Methodist
Elected Age: 54
Age At Death: 70
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, on October 4, 1822. His mother was Sophia Birchard Hayes (1792-1866). Hayes was taught at schools in Delaware and Norwalk, Ohio, and Middletown, Connecticut. As the nineteenth president of the United States, he won a questionable and wildly contested political race against Samuel Tilden.
Hayes pulled back soldiers from the Reconstruction states so as to reestablish local control and positive attitude, a choice that many saw as a disloyalty to African Americans in the South. He served only one term, as he had guaranteed in his inaugural speech.
