Republic Party candidate Rutherford Hayes won the 1876 presidential election defeating Democratic Party candidate Samuel Tilden. In the 1876 presidential election Rutherford Hayes received 185 electoral votes and Samuel Tilden received 184 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Tilden 4,288,546 and Hayes 4,034,311. The electoral votes of 4 States were disputed. Congress referred the matter to the Electoral Commission which gave the decision to Republic Party candidate Rutherford B. Hayes.
the Democrats were able to control the southern states
Southern reconstruction, Republican corruption, and economic hard times.
The 1860 election was the second presidential election with a Republican candidate and the first in which a Republican won (Abraham Lincoln).Republicans won the U.S. presidential elections of...1860 -- Abraham Lincoln1864 -- Abraham Lincoln1868 -- Ulysses S. Grant1872 -- Ulysses S. Grant1876 -- Rutherford B. Hayes1880 -- James A. Garfield1888 -- Benjamin Harrison1896 -- William McKinley1900 -- William McKinley1904 -- Theodore Roosevelt1908 -- William Howard Taft1920 -- Warren G. Harding1924 -- Calvin Coolidge1928 -- Herbert HooverIn the 1888 election a plurality of the voting public supported Democrat Grover Cleveland at the polls, and in the 1876 election Democrat Samuel J. Tilden was actually the choice of a majority (more than half) of those who voted.The elections won by Democrats during the same period were...1884 -- Grover Cleveland1892 -- Grover Cleveland1912 -- Woodrow Wilson1916 -- Woodrow Wilson
1876
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted "A Girl with a Watering Can" in 1876 as a thirty-five year old. He died fourty-three years later.
made a compromise with the Democrats.
The Supreme Court decide the presidential election.
The Compromise of 1877
No. Presidential election years are divisible by four. 1872 and 1876 saw presidential elections but not 1870.
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To settle the 1876 presidential election
Rutherford Hayes won the 1876 presidential election defeating Samuel Tilden. Ulysses S. Grant won the 1868 presidential election defeating Horatio Seymour. Ulysses S. Grant won the 1872 presidential election defeating Horace Greeley.
The results were too close to name a clear winner
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Hayes in 1876.
In the Presidential Election of 1876, the Democrats nominated Samuel J. Tilden of New York, the Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, and the National Greenback Party nominated Peter Cooper of New York.
Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes won the 1876 presidential election defeating Democratic Party candidate Samuel Tilden.