Centennial Crisis
Centennial Crisis In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Hayes…
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Centennial Crisis
In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Hayes and Samuel J.
Grant was marked by misjudgment and scandal, and Hayes, Republican governor of Ohio, vied with Tilden, a wealthy Democratic lawyer and successful corruption buster, to succeed Grant as America s chief executive. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post Civil War years, when the presidency of Ulysses S. The upshot was a very close popular vote (in favor of Tilden) that an irremediably deadlocked Congress was unable to resolve.
In the pitched battle that ensued along party lines, the ultimate decision of who would be President rested with a commission that included five Supreme Court justices, as well as five congressional members