Hi everybody. Today! Bye, mommy! It's going to Super Bowl.

B. Hay! Thank you, Noah, for introducing Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States.

Like President Grant before him, President Hayes was born in the state of Ohio, was a civil war hero, and was a Republican.

Rutherford B. Hayes graduated from Harvard University Law School in 1845 and was practicing law in Cincinnati when he met his future wife, Lucy Webb.

Lucy was an abolitionist, and she encouraged her husband to defend runaway slaves that

escape the South. When the Republican Party was created in the 1850s, Rutherford B. Hayes

helped represent the party in his home state of Ohio.

He also loved reading and joined a book club in Cincinnati. When the Civil War started in April of

1861, Hayes felt so strongly about supporting the North that he started to put about three dozen of the

book club members through military drills to prepare them for war. During the war, he was wounded

four times. After the completion of the war, he became a hero for the incredible heroism he displayed while fighting for the Union.

He served three terms as governor of Ohio, during which the 15th Amendment was ratified in Ohio, giving former slaves the right to vote.

Rutherford B. Hayes is best known for the controversial election

of 1876. Hayes lost the popular vote by more than a quarter of a million people. That may not

sound like a lot, but it was plenty back in 1876 when just over 8 million people voted in total.

The popular vote didn't matter back then, as it doesn't matter today.

For that election, 185 electoral votes were needed to claim victory.

Unfortunately, the vote counts in Florida, South Carolina,

and Louisiana came under question due to claims of fraud and intimidation. Excluding those

three states, the Democratic nominee Samuel J. Tilden had a lead of 184 to 165, just one electoral vote short of becoming president.

Two months after the election and just days before the inauguration, the matter still wasn't settled.

Congress then created an electoral commission made up of 15 members to determine

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