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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: William McKinley, William Allen, James M. Cox, Rutherford B. Hayes, List of Governors of Ohio, Ted Strickland, George Voinovich, Bob Taft, John Kasich, Salmon P. Chase, Jacob Dolson Cox, David Tod, Ohio gubernatorial elections, Joseph B. Foraker, Robert Lucas, Jim Rhodes, Thomas Corwin, Michael DiSalle, Dick Celeste, Edward Tiffin, William Dennison, Jr., John W. Bricker, John Brough, Return J. Meigs, Jr., Duncan McArthur, Thomas Worthington, Wilson Shannon, John J. Gilligan, Frank Lausche, Nancy Hollister, Richard M. Bishop, James E. Campbell, John William Brown, Othniel Looker, Andrew L. Harris, Thomas Kirker, Jeremiah Morrow, Joseph Vance, Samuel H. Huntington, Edward Follansbee Noyes, Martin L. Davey, Frank B. Willis, Charles Foster, George K. Nash, Asa S. Bushnell, A. Victor Donahey, Ethan Allen Brown, Charles Anderson, Judson Harmon, William Medill, Thomas L. Young, Myron T. Herrick, Allen Trimble, Harry L. Davis, Reuben Wood, George White, Mordecai Bartley, C. William O'Neill, William Bebb, Thomas W. Bartley, William S. Fitzgerald, George Hoadly, John M. Pattison, Myers Y. Cooper, Thomas J. Herbert, Seabury Ford. Excerpt: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 - January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution. Hayes was a reformer who began the efforts that would lead to civil service reform and attempted, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the divisions that had led to the American Civil War fifteen years earlier. Born in Delaware, Ohio, Hayes practiced law in Lower Sandusky (now Fremont) and was city solicitor of Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861. When the Civil War began, Hayes left a successful political career to join the Union Army. Wounded five times, most seriously a...
