General information

Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
President order: 19
Republican
Born in Ohio
Sworn in on 3/4/1877
Age at inauguration: 54
1 term


Biography

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th President
 of the United States (1877-1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction 
and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution. Hayes was a reformer
 who began the efforts that would lead to civil service reform and attempted, unsuccessfully, 
to reconcile the divisions that had led to the American Civil War fifteen years earlier.

Early life:
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, on October 4, 1822, the son of 
Rutherford Hayes and Sophia Birchard. Hayes's father, a Vermont storekeeper, took the
 family to Ohio in 1817 but died ten weeks before his son's birth.Sophia took charge of 
the family, bringing up Hayes and his sister, Fanny, the only two of her four children 
to survive to adulthood.

Marriage and family:
Hayes courted his future wife, Lucy Webb, during his time there.His mother had encouraged
 him to get to know Lucy years earlier, but Hayes had believed she was too young and 
focused his attention on other women.Four years later, Hayes began to spend more time with
 Lucy. They became engaged in 1851 and married on December 30, 1852, at the house of Lucy's 
mother. Over the next five years, Lucy gave birth to three sons: Birchard Austin (1853), 
Webb Cook (1856), and Rutherford Platt (1858). Lucy, a Methodist, teetotaler, and
 abolitionist, influenced her husband's views on those issues, although he never formally 
joined her church.

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