The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes and New York Democratic Governor Samuel Tilden was the most sensational and corrupt presidential election in American history. It was also, in many ways, the final battle of the Civil War. Although Tilden received some 265, 000 more popular votes than his opponent, and needed only one more electoral vote for victory, contested returns in three southern states still un...
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