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President of the United States from 1877 to 1881
The South Lawn and surrounding White House grounds have hosted a wide range of over more than a century — from the long-running White House Easter Egg Roll to papal welcoming ceremonies, state funeral...
Rutherford B. Hayes played a consequential role in the formal end of Reconstruction by accepting the political bargain that removed federal military enforcement from the South, a move that directly we...
Rutherford B. Hayes’s removal of the last federal troops from Southern statehouses in spring 1877 is widely identified by historians and contemporary sources as the decisive act that ended Reconstruct...
Rutherford B. Hayes’s victory in the presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed and controversial contests in U.S. history: Democrat Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote and led in th...
No single, authoritative source in the provided set identifies which U.S. president is the “most distant” genetic relation to other presidents; most reporting emphasizes that many presidents are inter...
Previous presidents repeatedly altered the White House grounds and interiors for recreational or ceremonial uses; those changes were typically carried out under , depending on funding and scope. Recen...