the 1866 elections were mostly about who should control the reconstruction Rutherford b. Hayes won the popular vote and removed federal troops from the south this deal singled the end of the reconstruction
This answer describes the Presidential election of 1876. The 1866 election was the Congressional mid-term election of the Andrew Johnson administration.
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Republicans gained control of Congress in 1866. Radical Republicans had the support of many Northerners who believed stricter measures should be taken against the former Confederate states. After the vicious violence in New Orleans that had killed dozens of Freedman, they supported the Radical Republicans and the Fourteenth Amendment.
The president's election that marked the end of Reconstruction was Rutherford Hayes. It was during the Presidential Election of 1876.
Texas was the first to attempt it in 1866.
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Lincoln's opponent in the 1860 election