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'''Rutherford Birchard Hayes'''<ref>http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch1.asp</ref> was the 19th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1877 to 1881. He Hayes, a leading Ohio Republican was born October 4nominated because Ohio was a close and large state state. Previously he served one term as governor of Ohio, 1822 and served in DelawareCongress as a [[Radical Republican]] who supported [[Reconstruction]]. He gained local fame as a general in the Civil War. He was a relatively conservative chief executive who left little mark, but exemplified the honest, hard-working party leadership of the [[OhioThird Party System]]. He was the beneficiary of the "Compromise of 1877" that ended opposition to his election, and ended [[Reconstruction]].==Career==Hayes was a Victorian gentleman from a [[Yankee]] family that had resettled in Ohio. His father died before he was born, but his rich bachelor uncle Sardis Birchard took him under wing. He graduated from the local school, Kenyon College, and was the first president to attend Harvard Law School (Ll.B. 1845). He became a leading lawyer in Cincinnati, and inherited wealth from his uncle. His diary plainly reveals the ambivalence he felt when his political ambition clashed with his strict sense of morality, which told him that a man might gladly accept high office but should not actively seek it. ===Civil War===Hayes served in the military army as Colonel colonel of the 23rd Ohio during the [[U.S. Civil War|Civil War]]. He was wounded at the battle of South Mountain in [[Maryland]]. He was later on promoted to a brigade commander and saw action in the Shenandoah Valley. During the war Hayes was wounded five times and had his horse shot out from under him five times. For his bravery he was promoted to Brigadier General. He resigned from the army on June 8, 1865 ==Presidency==Hayes had fewer popular votes than his opponent [[Samuel J. After the war he Tilden]], and so entered into politics in the White House with his home state title clouded by the disputed election of Ohio1876. He served in Opponents called him "His Fraudulency" and "Rutherfraud B. Hayes," but soon he began to reassert the [[House authority of Representatives]] the presidency and as the sarcasm faded away. Hayes promoted [[U.S. Governor|GovernorCivil Service Reform]] of Ohioto reduce the corruption inherent in the linkage between vote-seeking and office-holding. He was nominated President on named well-known reformers in high offices, and, ordering the last troops out of South Carolina and Louisiana, ended [[RepublicanReconstruction]] ticket with [[William Wheeler]] as Vice President. He had a close election against his opponent Samuel Tilden which went all hoped to revive the way Republican party in the South by persuading business-oriented conservatives (most of them ex-Whigs) to join a national party that would support their economic interests more effectively than the House of RepresentativesDemocrats did. He promised to bring troops out of failed because the South which finally won him the electionwas polarized on race. He did not seek Committed to run another term. He died the gold standard--the only basis, Hayes thought, of a sound currency--in Spiegel Grove1878 he vetoed the Bland-Allison Silver Purchase bill, Ohio on January 17which called for the partial coinage of silver, 1893. <ref>Encyclopedia of Presidents Rutherford Bbut Congress passed it over his veto. He and First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes by Zachary Kentrefused to serve alcoholic beverages, Children's Press, 1989even at state functions; they called her "Lemonade Lucy. </ref>"