President Rutherford B. Hayes was elected by a compromise over two sets of votes from the South.
Hayes was nominated as the Republican candidate for the presidency in 1876 and elected through the Compromise of 1877.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. He was also an American representative and governor of Ohio as well as a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who advocated refugee slaves in court proceedings in the antebellum years.