Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist.  | Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) — also known asRutherford B. Hayes;"Rutherfraud B.Hayes";"His Fraudulency" —of Ohio. Born in Delaware,DelawareCounty, Ohio,October4, 1822.Republican.Lawyer;general in the Union Army during the Civil War;U.S.Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1865-67;Governor ofOhio, 1868-72, 1876-77;Presidentof the United States, 1877-81.Methodist.Scottishancestry. Member,LoyalLegion;GrandArmy of the Republic;OddFellows;DeltaKappa Epsilon.Stricken by aheartattack at therailroadstation in Cleveland, Ohio, and died that night in Fremont,SanduskyCounty, Ohio,January17, 1893 (age70 years, 105days).Original interment and cenotaph atOakwoodCemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 atRutherfordB. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.| |  Relatives: Sonof Rutherford Hayes, Jr. and Sophia (Birchard) Hayes; married,December30, 1852, toLucyWare Webb; father ofJamesWebb Cook Hayes. | | |  | Political family:Hayes #2family of Fremont, Ohio. | | |  | Cross-reference:LeopoldMarkbreit —JamesM. Comly —JosephP. Bradley | | |  | Hayes County,Neb. is named for him. | | |  | Rutherford B. HayesHighSchool, inDelaware,Ohio, isnamed forhim. — The Presidente Hayes Department (province),and itscapitalcity, Villa Hayes, inParaguay,arenamed forhim. — HayesHall(built 1893), at Ohio StateUniversity,Columbus,Ohio, isnamed forhim. | | |  | Personal motto: "He serves his partybest who serves his country best." | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | |  | Books about Rutherford B. Hayes: AriHoogenboom,RutherfordB. Hayes: Warrior and President — Hans Trefousse,RutherfordB. Hayes: 1877 - 1881 — William H. Rehnquist,CentennialCrisis : The Disputed Election of 1876 — Mike Resnick,ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | |  | Image source: James G. Blaine, TwentyYears of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
| | Lucy Webb Hayes (1831-1889) — also known asLucy Ware Webb;"LemonadeLucy" —Born in Chillicothe,RossCounty, Ohio,August28, 1831.FirstLady of the United States, 1877-81.Female.Died in Fremont,SanduskyCounty, Ohio,June 25,1889 (age57 years, 301days).Original interment atOakwoodCemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 atRutherfordB. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio. | | James Webb Cook Hayes (1856-1934) — also known asWebb C. Hayes — of Fremont,SanduskyCounty, Ohio.Born in Cincinnati,HamiltonCounty, Ohio,March20, 1856.Co-founder and vice-president of NationalCarbonCompany, manufacturer of electric batteries; served in the U.S. Armyduring the Spanish-American War; member of Ohio state legislature,1910.Member,DeltaKappa Epsilon;LoyalLegion.Received theMedalof Honor in 1902 for action at Vigan, Luzon, Philippines,December 4, 1899.Died at Sawyersanitarium,Marion,MarionCounty, Ohio,July 26,1934 (age78 years, 128days).Interment atRutherfordB. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.
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