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 HKRRINQRHAWS MBRART OF AMERICAN BIOQRAPHT. phia, Pa. Since 1888 he lias In^n prcnitlt-nt of the St. I'aiul aiul Dultitli railway.

Hayes, Rutherford Burchard, nineteenth prMidfiit

of

tii>

man. was born

l

(>uncil.

Cincinnati

and

in

1860 wa** elected by the peojde for one yejir. Iiut «lt'feate<i in 1801. lie was appointed major of the twenty-thir*! Ohio infantry June 7, 1861, and continued in the Kervi«'f, being promoted lor distinguished Mer ices, having been wounded four times, until he attained the rank of brigjidier-gi-neral. In 186.5 69 he waa a representative to the thirty-ninth and fortieth ccmgreHses. In 186872 and 1876 he was the twenty-seventh governor of Ohio. In 1872 he was defeated t«ir congress. The republican national convention njet at Cincinnati .luiie 14, 1876. to nominate candidates for president and vicepresident.

June

ballot

16 the first

stoiwl:

.Fames Blaine. 28.5: Oliver T. .Morton, 124; Mi-njamin II. Bristow, 113; Roscoc (•.inkling. ItO-: Kuth.Tford B. Hayis. 61; Johr K. Ilartranft. .>8: Marshall Jewell, II, and William A. Wheeler. 3. There was no niati-rial rhanifr until the seventh ballot, which gjiw Hayes. .384; Blaine. 351, anod For Haves,

Tilden. 4.284,265. Tilden's majority, 250.970. The canvassing boanls of Florida. Louisiana and South Carolina having returned the reiiublican presidtiitial electors, their right to do so l>eing questioned by the democratic house of representatives (the senate being republican), congress on Jan. 29. 1877, passed a bill creating an electoral commission to count the electoral vote in all disputed cases. The oommision was composed of five justices of flie supreme eoirt. live senators an«i five representatives, as follows: .lust ices Nathan ClilTortl. Maine; Samuel F. Milh-r, Iowa; Stephen Johnson Field, California; William .Strong, Pennsylvania; Jo«M'ph P. Bradley. X»'w .Jersey. Senators Oetirge F. Edmnnds. Vermont: Oliver P. Morton. Indiana; Frederick T. Freliiighuysen. New Jersey: Allen f?. Tliurman. Ohio; Thomas Francis Bayard, Delaware. Representatives Ffenry B. Payne, Ohio; Eppa Tlunton, 4.(i:<3.2n5;

for

vote of Florida, lx)uisiana and S<^»uth Carolina should l>e countetl for Hayea and Wheeler, which gave them 185 and Tilden and Hendricks 184 electoral voten. The result was reported to congress, and at four o'clock on the morning of March 2, IH77, Hayea was declared ehfte*! president. c-an electoral

He at once resigned the oflice of governor of Ohio and proceeded to Washington and Saturday night. took the oath of ofdciMarch 3. He was inauguntte«l on M<inilay, March 5. and again took the oath of oflice. .t the close of his term. March 4. 1881. he retired to his home at Fremont. Ohio. Hayea held office about fourteen years, and was the wealthiest of all the presidents. He di«t| .Tan. 17, 1893. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hayes, Samuel, congressman, was born

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in

Virginia. He was n representative in congress from Virginia in 1841-43. He died in Virginia. Hayes, Samuel, lawyer, jurist, of Oklahoma, was born Sept. 17. 1875. in HuntsviUe. .Vrk. He was eklahiMna; was a delegate to the constitutional convention of Oklahoma. Since 1!M)3 he has been an assoi'iate justil-e of the supreme court <»f Oklahoma.

Hayes, Thomas Gordon,

soldier,

lawyer and

small, was l>orn .Tan. 5, 1844, in. ne .Xrundel 'Hiunty. Md. He graduated from the Virginia military institute. He sened as a confederate soldier during the civil war. In 1872 he Ix'gan the practice of law; and was Cnited States district attorney for Maryland under T*resident Cleveland's first administration. In 1899-1903 he was mayor >«tat»

of Baltimore.

Hayes, William James, manufacturer, waa on Oct. II, 1837. in New Lisl>on. Ohio. mills have enntinued to grow until they have Iweome the

iMtrn

H is wire

largest

the

in

coun-

employing seven thousand men. their annual out]>ut aggregating sixty thousand try,

tons.

In

"

1886

the

banking firm was sueceedH by W. J. Hayes and sons, who assumed all the depoMits. as-

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'irginia; Joseph fi. Abbott, Ma.ssachuetta; Hoar. Maasachusetta; James t^Jeorge F. .M)ram Garfield, Ohio. The commission decided by a vote of 8 to 7 that the republi-

sets

and

and

purchased

linbilitiea

the

gn<M| will of the busi-

ness.

The bank

is

now a

rising institution,

transacts general banking in all its forms, stand-* higli in the i-^t innit ion of busi-

and

ne-is men. Hayes, Walter I., lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1841. in Marshall, Mich. He graduated from the law de-