Contested President

10/4/1822 – 1/17/1893 Party: Republican Timeline; 1877-1881 #19 Rutherford B. Hayes- The Contested President Hayes was an attorney and city solicitor of Cincinnati (1858-1861) but when the Civil War began he left politics to join the Union Army, as an officer. He was wounded a few different times, the worst being the Battle of South…