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As the 1876 Presidential election approached, Garfield was loyal to the candidacy of his House Speaker, James G. Blaine.
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* Holt, Michael F. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876.
* Presidential Election of 1876: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress
During his time as a senator, he was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election in favor of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
He was a member of the joint committee which drew up and reported ( 1877 ) the Electoral Commission Bill, and subsequently served as a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election.
* Paul Leland Haworth, The Hayes-Tilden Disputed Presidential Election of 1876, ( 1906 ) The standard accounting.
* Samuel J. Tilden, New York politician and U. S. Presidential candidate in 1876.
The party fielded Presidential tickets three times — in the elections of 1876, 1880, and 1884, before fading away.
Peter Cooper of New York, 1876 Presidential candidate of the Greenback Party.
As the 1876 Republican convention approached during the U. S. Presidential Election, President Grant, unknown to Fish, had written a letter to Republican leaders to nominate Fish for the Presidential ticket.
After the disputed Presidential election of 1876 between Democratic Samuel J. Tilden, governor of New York, and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, governor of Ohio, a national agreement between Democratic and Republican factions was negotiated, resulting in the Compromise of 1877.
Bristow resigned due to friction between himself and President Grant over Bristow's zealous reforming in the Treasury Department and potential Presidential run in 1876.
During the Presidential Election of 1876, Bristow made an unsuccessful attempt at gaining the Republican Presidential ticket, running as a Republican reformer ; the Republicans, however, chose Rutherford B. Hayes.
After the 1876 Presidential election, Bristow returned to private practice in New York forming a successful law practice in 1878, often argueing cases before the U. S. Supreme Court until his death in 1896.
During the 1876 Republican Presidential Convention, Stalwart members of the Republican party, friends of President Grant, believed Bristow had been disloyal to Grant during the Whiskey Ring prosecutions, by going after Babcock.
Rumor spread that Bristow had prosecuted the Whiskey Ring in an attempt to gain the 1876 Presidential Republican nomination.
Stevens also played a large role in the 1876 Presidential campaign when he served as Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Maine.
After his resignation Williams took part in counting Florida ballots for Rutherford B. Hayes in settling the controversial Presidential Election of 1876.
During the controversial Presidential Election of 1876, Williams, now a private citizen, went to Florida to manage the Hayes ballot returns.
He helped create the Electoral Commission to resolve the outcome of the 1876 Presidential Election, and served on the committee that investigated the Credit Mobilier scandal.
Next door at # 15 Gramercy Park ( South ) is the National Arts Club, established in 1884 in a Victorian Gothic mansion which was originally home to the New York Governor and 1876 Presidential Candidate, Samuel J. Tilden.
Except for 1928, when Catholic candidate Al Smith ran on the Democratic ticket, Democrats won heavily in the South in every Presidential election from 1876 until 1964 ( and even in 1928, the divided South provided most of Smith's electoral votes ).
* November 7, 1876: United States general elections, 1876, including the disputed Presidential election of 1876, later settled with the Compromise of 1877 which ended Reconstruction.
1876 and election
Among the Democrats, Samuel J. Tilden was the initial front-runner, having been the party's nominee in the contested election of 1876.
The first election under this new constitution – held in early 1876 – resulted in a republican victory, with 363 republicans elected as opposed to 180 monarchists.
* 1877 – U. S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U. S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
Thus in four close U. S. elections ( 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 ), the candidate with the most popular votes still lost the election.
As a House freshman, Reed was appointed to the Potter Commission, which was to investigate voting irregularities in the presidential election of 1876, where his skill at cross examination forced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden to personally appear to defend his reputation.
* November 7 – U. S. presidential election, 1876: After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes is eventually declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden.
* March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U. S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
# REDIRECT United States presidential election, 1876
* How close was the 1876 election?
After the disputed election of 1876 resulted in the end of Reconstruction, Whites in the South regained political control of the region, after mounting intimidation and violence in the elections.
Samuel Jones Tilden ( February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886 ) was the Democratic candidate for the U. S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial American elections of the 19th century.
Campaign poster for the election of 1876.
During the 1876 presidential election, Tilden won the popular vote over his Republican opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, proving that the Democrats were once again competitive in the American political process following the Civil War.
In reference to the 1876 election, Tilden's gravestone bears the words, " I Still Trust in The People ".
* William Rehnquist, Centennial crisis: the disputed election of 1876, Alfred Knopf, New York ( 2003 ) Coverage of the election and subsequent dispute, focusing on the Supreme Court.
The U. S. withdrew federal troops from Southern states as a result of a compromise in one of the most disputed national elections in American history, the 1876 U. S. presidential election.
He remained the leading spokesman of French Radicalism, but his hostility to the Russian alliance so increased his unpopularity that in the 1893 election, he was defeated for his Chamber seat, after having held it continuously since 1876.
1876 and approached
Stanley was approached by the ambitious Belgian king Leopold II, who in 1876 had organised a private holding company disguised as an international scientific and philanthropic association, which he called the International African Society.
In 1876 he was approached by James O. Clephane, who sought a quicker way of publishing legal briefs., via Charles T. Moore who held a patent on a typewriter for newspapers which did not work and asked Mergenthaler to construct a better model.
However, in 1876, Korea established a trade treaty with Japan after Japanese ships approached Ganghwado and threatened to fire on Seoul.
On December 16, 1876 five Sioux chiefs from Crazy Horse's village approached the Tongue River Cantonment to discuss terms of surrender for their bands.
He participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn River on June 25 – 26 June 1876, where, as his company approached the bluffs overlooking the river, Watson ’ s horse and that of another man, Peter Thompson, gave out.
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