The Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.

Electoral Commission (United States)

1877 US commission

The Electoral Commission, sometimes referred to as the Hayes-Tilden or Tilden-Hayes Electoral Commission, was a temporary body created by the United States Congress on January 29, 1877, to resolve the disputed presidential election of 1876. Democrat Samuel J. Tilden and…

United States Electoral College

Electors of the U.S. president and vice president

In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president in the presidential election. This process is described in Article Two of the Constitution. The…

Rutherford B. Hayes

President of the United States from 1877 to 1881

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. Hayes served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861. He was a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. At the start of the Civil War, he left…

1876 United States presidential election

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1876. Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio very narrowly defeated Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York. Following President Ulysses S. Grant's decision to retire after his second term,…