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Rutherford B. Hayes a Ohio born president winner in 1876
Rutherford B Hayes born October 4 1822 in Delaware Ohio. He studied at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Cincinnati before the Civil War. A Union general he later served in Congress and as Ohio governor. He won the 1876 presidency after an Electoral Commission recount and withdrew troops from the South. He died in Fremont Ohio in 1893.
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