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Rutherford B. Hayes

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President Rutherford Hayes Biography

 

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Rutherford B. Hayes

 

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Rutherford B. Hayes | 60-Second Presidents | PBS

 

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The Rutherford Hayes Song

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881, having served also as an American congressman and governor of Ohio. Hayes was a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings in the antebellum years. During the American Civil War, he was seriously wounded fighting in the Union Army.
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