Rutherford B Hayes Accomplishments

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Rutherford B. Hayes Miranda Ayers Mr. Washburn Government August 22, 2013 Rutherford Hayes was born on October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio. Hayes married gregarious, devout Methodist Lucy Ware Web (she was nicknamed lemonade mouth for not allowing alcohol in the white house) in 1852, they had seven sons and one daughter. Rutherford graduated Harvard law school “I have now finished my first week in the Law School. I have studied hard and am confident that my real gain is as great as I should have had in two weeks in an office,” he wrote. Some of his other occupations were: U.S. representative, military leader, and a governor of Ohio. Hayes was born into a family with a long military history, and both grandparents served in the American…show more content…
Hayes details his time at HLS in his diary, and was quickly impressed with the education he was receiving. “I have now finished my first week in the Law School. I have studied hard and am confident that my real gain is as great as I should have had in two weeks in an office,” he wrote. While Hayes was at Harvard, slavery was one of the most important political questions facing the country. Hayes declined to take a stance on the issue at the time, and in his diary he even berated himself for not investigating this and other difficult legal questions. Instead, he wrote that he focused too much on literature, among other studies. . After graduating from Harvard Law School, Hayes returned to Ohio, first practicing law in Lower Sandusky before moving to Cincinnati, where he became a successful lawyer. Rutherford B. Hayes was the first and only other HLS alum to be elected president of the United States. Elected in 1876, Hayes was an unlikely political candidate, yet succeeded in helping to heal the country after the Civil War. After serving his first term of presidency Hayes retired with his wife back to their home town Spiegel grove Ohio. Mrs. Hayes died of a stroke in 1889. Shortly after Rutherford Hayes, while visiting friends in Cleveland he suffered a mortal heart attack on January 17,
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