Presidents of the United States of America
Public Domain Image
19 - Rutherford B. Hayes
Personal Statistics:
Birth Date: October 4, 1822
Birthplace: Family home on Williams Street, Delaware, Ohio
Father: Rutherford Hayes (1787-1822)
Mother: Sophia Birchard (1792-1866)
Height at Prime: 5 feet 8 ½ inches
Physical Description: Robust, broad-shouldered, high forehead, deep-set blue eyes, auburn hair that turned brown
Religion: Baptized Presbyterian, Episcopal when he was single, attended the Methodist church when he married
Wife: Lucy Ware Webb (August 28, 1831 – June 25, 1889)
Marriage Date: December 30, 1852
Marriage Place: Home of the bride’s mother, Cincinnati, Ohio
Children:
-- Birchard Austin Hayes (November 4, 1853 – January 24, 1926)
-- James Webb Cook Hayes (March 20, 1856 – July 26, 1934)
-- Rutherford Platt Hayes (June 24, 1858 – July 31, 1927)
-- Joseph Thompson Hayes (December 21, 1861 – June 24, 1863)
-- George Crook Hayes (September 29, 1864 – May 24, 1866)
-- Frances Hayes Smith (September 2, 1867 – March 19, 1950)
-- Scott Russell Hayes (February 8, 1871 – May 6, 1923)
-- Manning Force Hayes (August 1, 1873 – August 28, 1874)
Death Date: January 17, 1893
Place of Death: Spiegel Grove estate, Fremont, Ohio
Cause of Death: Heart failure
Final Words: “I know I am going where Lucy is.â€
1st Burial Place: Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio
2nd Burial Place: Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio
Professional Statistics:
Cincinnati City Solicitor (1858-1861)
Major to Major General in the Civil War (1861-1865)
U.S. Representative (1865-1867)
Governor of Ohio (1868-1872), (1876-1877)
19th President of the United States (1877-1881)
Political Party: Republican
His Vice President: William Almon Wheeler (1877-1881)
Events During Presidency:
End of Reconstruction (1877)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Resumption of Specie Act (1879)
Civil Service Reform (1879)
Chinese Immigration
Proposal of the Panama Canal
