PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES - PRESIDENTIAL WARRANT SIGNED 11/05/1878 - HFSID 30967
Sale Price $2,550.00
Reg. $3,000.00
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. Presidential Warrant signed "R. B.
Hayes", 1p, 7¾x9¾. Washington, D.C., 1878 November 5. Hayes signs a
warrant for the pardon of Edward Gillett. Rutherford Birchard Hayes
(1822-1893), the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881), served
the Union cause with distinction during the Civil War, suffering a serious
wound while leading a charge at South Mountain (1862) and rising by 1864 to the
rank of Brigadier General. He served Ohio in the U.S. Congress (1865-1867)
and then as Governor (1868-1872, 1876-1877). The Republican nominee for
President in 1876, he was finally declared the winner of a bitterly disputed
election in which he lost the popular vote and won the Electoral vote by a
margin of one after 20 disputed Electoral Votes were awarded to Hayes by a
special commission voting 5-4 on straight party lines. Hayes withdrew federal
troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction. A reformer, he
worked to curb the corruption in government which had been rampant during the
Grant administration. Slightly creased. Slightly frayed right edge. Paper
separation at right edge of both horizontal folds has been repaired on verso
with clear tape, which shows through lightly. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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