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The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 7,1876,in which Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes faced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. It was one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history. Its resolution involved negotiations between the Republicans and Democrats,resulting in the Compromise of 1877,and on March 2,1877,the counting of electoral votes by the House and Senate occurred,confirming Hayes as President. It was the second of five U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not win a plurality of the national popular vote. This is the only time both major party nominees were incumbent US governors.
Lucy Ware Hayes was the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and served as first lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
Delaware is a city in and the county seat of Delaware County,Ohio,United States. Delaware was founded in 1808 and was incorporated in 1816. It is located near the center of Ohio,is about 30 miles (48 km) north of Columbus,and is part of the Columbus,Ohio metropolitan area. The population was 41,302 at the 2020 census,while the Columbus metropolitan area has 2,002,604 people.
Wayne Woodrow Hayes was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Denison University (1946–1948),Miami University in Oxford,Ohio (1949–1950),and Ohio State University (1951–1978),compiling a career college football record of 238 wins,72 losses,and 10 ties. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983.
Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator for Ohio from 1851 to 1869. He is known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans. Had the 1868 impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson led to a conviction in the Senate,as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate,Wade would have become acting president for the remaining nine months of Johnson's term.
Henry B. Payne was an American politician from Ohio. Moving to Ohio from his native New York in 1833,he quickly established himself in law and business while becoming a local leader in Democratic politics. After serving in the Ohio Senate,Payne was elected to a single term in the United States House of Representatives in 1874. In the House,he worked unsuccessfully for a compromise in the debate over whether all of the nation's currency should be backed by gold. He was defeated for reelection,but served on the Electoral Commission that convened in early 1877 to resolve the dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election.
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio;the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate.
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The 1996 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 5,1996,which coincided with the re-election of President Bill Clinton. Democrats won the popular vote by almost 60,000 votes (0.07%) and gained a net of two seats from the Republicans,but the Republicans retained an overall majority of seats in the House for the first time since 1928.
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William Lawrence was a Republican lawyer and politician from Ohio. He was most noted for being a US Representative influential in attempting to impeach President Andrew Johnson,creating the United States Department of Justice,helping to create the American Red Cross,and ratifying the Geneva Convention.
Samuel Fenton Cary was an American politician who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio and significant temperance movement leader in the 19th century. Cary became well known nationally as a prohibitionist author and lecturer.
Thomas Michael Cousineau is an American former college and professional football player who was a linebacker in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He played college football for Ohio State University,and twice earned All-American honors. He was the first overall pick of the 1979 NFL Draft,and played professionally for the CFL's Montreal Alouettes and the NFL's Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers.
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The Ohio State Buckeyes football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision,representing Ohio State University in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. Ohio State has played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus,Ohio since 1922. The Buckeyes are recognized by the university and NCAA as having won eight national championships along with 41 conference championships,10 division championships,10 undefeated seasons,and six perfect seasons. Seven players have received the Heisman Trophy,with the program holding the distinction of having the only two-time winner of the award.
Fort Hayes is a military post in Columbus,Ohio,United States. Created by an act of the United States Congress on July 11,1862,the site was also known as the Columbus Arsenal until 1922,when the site was renamed after former Ohio Governor and later 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes. Beginning in 2007,the property was primarily used for the Columbus School District's Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center and bus depot. Currently the 391st Military Police Battalion and the 375th Criminal Investigations Division of the U.S. Army Reserve use the facility,but the last military presence on the property was in 2009. The military is building a new army reserve center in Whitehall,which will end a century and a half of military presence at Fort Hayes.
The 1876 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held at the Exposition Hall in Cincinnati,Ohio on June 14–16,1876. President Ulysses S. Grant had considered seeking a third term,but with various scandals,a poor economy and heavy Democratic gains in the House of Representatives that led many Republicans to repudiate him,he declined to run. The convention resulted in the nomination of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio for president and Representative William A. Wheeler of New York for vice president.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881,after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Ohio. Before the American Civil War,Hayes was a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. He served in the Union Army and the House of Representatives before assuming the presidency. His presidency represents a turning point in U.S. history,as historians consider it the formal end of Reconstruction. Hayes,a prominent member of the Republican "Half-Breed" faction,placated both Southern Democrats and Whiggish Republican businessmen by ending the federal government's involvement in attempting to bring racial equality in the South.
The Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university in accordance with the Morrill Act of 1862 under the name of Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The school was originally situated within a farming community located on the northern edge of Columbus,and was intended to matriculate students of various agricultural and mechanical disciplines. The university opened its doors to 24 students on September 17,1873. In 1878,the first class of six men graduated. The first woman graduated the following year. In 1900,in light of its expanded focus,the college permanently changed its name to the now-familiar "The Ohio State University". Ohio State began accepting graduate students in the 1880s,with the university awarding its first master's and doctoral degrees in 1886 and 1890 respectively. 1891 saw the founding of Ohio State's law school.
John Sherman was a politician from Lancaster,Ohio during the American Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. A member of the Republican Party,he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He also served as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. Sherman sought the Republican presidential nomination three times,coming closest in 1888,but was never chosen by the party.
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