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The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center is home of the nation's first presidential library and museum. A tribute to 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, the facility is built on 25 acres of the President's estate and includes his 31-room Victorian mansion, Museum, Library, and burial site. The main entrance is located at the corner of Hayes and Buckland avenues. As visitors drive onto the grounds, they pass through one of six sets of gates that originally were located at the White House.
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Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to host the "Easter Egg Roll" for children on the White House Lawn. To see more photographs of this annual event, search on Easter in Washington as It Was, 1923-1959.
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The presidential achievements of Rutherford B. Hayes are overshadowed, historically, by accounts of the election of 1876—one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Hayes faced conflict throughout his term. Democrats in Congress were combative. Hayes gradually lost support within his own Republican Party as well. Hayes had promised to serve only one term. It was unlikely that he would have been nominated for a second term, even if he wanted to seek reelection.
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On the night of the 1876 presidential election, Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes went to bed early. He assumed that he had lost the election to his opponent, Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden did win the popular vote that night, but the Republicans challenged the validity of the electoral votes from three states. (Under the Electoral College, each state chooses electors to vote for the president.) A candidate must win the electoral vote to become president.
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Rutherford B. Hayes was born two months after his father Rutherford Hayes died. Rutherford Hayes was working in the fields when he caught a fever. Several days later, he passed away. Young Rutherford was a sickly child, and his mother was very concerned with his health. When Rutherford was only three, his brother Lorenzo was skating on a frozen pond when the ice cracked and he fell through and drowned. After that Sophia Hayes, Rutherford's mother, would not let Rutherford play outside.
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Rutherford B. Hayes is typically listed in general sources about U.S. Presidents as a Methodist. However, a number of sources indicate that he was in no way a Methodist, but that he was baptized as a Presbyterian (and ended up being merely a nominal member of that denomination).
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