mar 5, 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes
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An American politician who served as the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881, assuming the presidency at the end of the Reconstruction Era. In office he ended army support for republican state governments in the South, promoted civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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