page_title: Samuel Tilden 1876 presidential campaign
section_title: The Democratic nomination fight
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Tilden 1876 presidential campaign / The Democratic nomination fight
caption_attribution_description: English: Rutherford B. Hayes (October 4, 1822—January 17, 1893), 19th President of the United States and 29th and 32nd Governor of Ohio Español: Rutherford B. Hayes (4 de octubre de 1822—17 de enero de 1893), 19o Presidente de los Estados Unidos y 29o y 32o Gobernador de Ohio Türkçe: 19. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Başkanı Rutherford B. Hayes. Bir cumhuriyetçi olan Hayes, sekiz yıl süren Ulysses Grant döneminden sonra, 1877-1881 tarihleri arasında görev yaptı ve görev süresinin bitiminde tekrar aday olmadı.
context_page_description: The 1876 U.S. presidential election occurred at the twilight of Reconstruction and was between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. After an extremely heated election dispute, a compromise was eventually reached where Hayes would become U.S. President in exchange for the end of Reconstruction and a withdrawal of U.S. federal troops from the South.
context_section_description: After the Democrats captured control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1874, they believed that they had their best chance in 20 years of winning the U.S. Presidency. In the 1874 elections, a new set of Democratic party leaders emerged which included New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden was previously the chair of the New York Democratic Party as well as the campaign manager for Horatio Seymour's unsuccessful 1868 presidential campaign and was notable for both toppling Boss Tweed (the corrupt boss of the Tammany Hall political machine) and prosecuting the Canal Ring. As the Governor of the most populous U.S. state, Tilden was an obvious choice and the front-runner for the 1876 Democratic presidential nomination.
  At the 1876 Democratic National Convention, Tilden easily won the required two-thirds of delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot, winning 535 delegates to 140½ for his nearest rival Indiana Governor Thomas A. Hendricks. Hendricks was then selected as Tilden's running mate due to him being from the crucial swing state of Indiana as well as due to the fact that "his support of soft-money balanced Tilden's hard-money stance on the divisive 'money-question.'" Meanwhile, on the Republican side, reformist Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes won the Republican nomination as a compromise candidate after front-runner James G. Blaine failed in his nomination bid due to his corruption scandals.
caption: Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes was Tilden's opponent in the 1876 presidential race.
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