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How does a vicious, close and disputed election spill over into a presidency? We examine the razor-thin election results for Rutherford B. Hayes, and the equally fine line he then had to tread as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today marks the birthday of one of the most controversial Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes, who took office amid a constitutional ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Rutherford B. Hayes, a Union veteran and former governor of Ohio, became president following a contested 1876 election ...

FREMONT, Ohio | The first presidential museum and library in the U.S. opened here in 1916. The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center was founded by the president's second son, Colonel Webb Cook ...

On this day in 1822, Rutherford B. Hayes, the nation’s 19th president and a former governor of Ohio, was born in Delaware, Ohio. In 1876, as the Republican presidential nominee, Hayes lost the popular ...

Situated behind a pair of iron gates that originally stood on the west side of the White House, the museum and library is a showcase for many, but not nearly all of the center’s 21,000 artifacts. For ...

On this day in 1852, Rutherford Hayes, the then-future 19th president of the United States, married Lucy Webb. She was 21, he was 33. She was the first presidential wife to have a college degree. As ...

When President-Elect Rutherford B. Hayes raised his hand and took the oath of office on the East Portico of the Capitol on March 5, 1877, his supporters breathed a sigh of relief. The ceremony marked ...

DELAWARE — For Columbus Art Memorial, the task was routine: hoist 700 pounds of bronze onto a slab of granite, a job typically performed at cemeteries. But here, at the crossroads of a bustling city, ...