Papers, 1877-1881.

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Papers, 1877-1881.

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Letters to Hayes, U.S. president, recommending various persons for appointment for office. One letter of the Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke, a Unitarian minister of Boston, concerns General H.S. Huidekoper. Other writers are John Tyler Morgan, Benjamin Franklin Perry, John Lee Chapman, and William Wade Dudley. A letter from John Sherman concerns a bill for the relief of William H. Thompson, a collector of interal revenue in North Carolina. There is also on brief note of introduction from Hayes for a friend.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...