Rutherford B. Hayes Puns

I have seen a couple of Hayes fans on here. What did he do to make you guys like him?

Party: Republican

Home State: Ohio

Term: 1877-1881

Hayes became president after the contested Election of 1877, where Hayes and fellow opponent Samuel Tilden had the same amount of electoral votes. There was 1 last electoral vote left and the two parties settled on a compromise. Hayes would be elected president with the 1 last electoral vote, however he would end Reconstruction. How did it go? Let's see.

DOMESTIC POLICY

Reconstruction

Reconstruction was a policy put forward after the civil war to help build the country up after the disastrous horrors of the war, in hopes of giving blacks rights and freedom and repressing Southern leaders. Andrew Johnson botched up this policy idea and Ulysses Grant implemented it well, however by 1876 the idea of Reconstruction was slowly fading away. Many leaders turned away from black rights and focused on other stuff, like the economy or foreign affairs. Many believed it was a dead policy, that was destroyed by Johnson and became violent under Grant (though not to the fault of Grant). So, what would Hayes do with this?

The Compromise of 1876 was considered a shady one. Hayes just barely snatched on the presidency from Tilden however as a compromise he would have to effectively end Reconstruction. Hayes was secretly sworn in as president and followed up on this promise. The idea was a bad one, but a necessary one. Reconstruction was a policy slowly dying and in 1876, if it didn't end, the Republican Parties reputation would have been crushed. Any Republicans left who cared about civil rights wouldn't have a chance to pass it. Hayes was forced to end it and he did so. Unfortunately, it had negative effects in the future, but blacks were comfortable under Hayes for the most part.

Hayes, however, wasn't ready to drop civil rights in the dust that quickly and defended them regularly throughout his term. He had difficulties in doing so, since by 1878, most of Congress was Democratic, but he wasn't ready to give up. When Congress tried repealing the Enforcement Acts on three different times, Hayes vetoed all three attempts and successfully blocked them, receiving praise from many contemporaries.

Civil Service Reform

Hayes didn't just fight for equality for blacks, he also made sure the system used to appoint people to government jobs was based on merit and not political patronage. The Grant Administration was full of corruption and Hayes tried making sure his own presidency was more clean. He issued an ex

He wrote in his diary one day (Post Presidency):

In church it occurred to me that it is time for the public to hear that the giant evil and danger in this country, the danger which transcends all others, is the vast wealth owned or controlled by a few persons. Money is power. In Congress, in state legislatures, in city councils, in the courts, in the political conventions, in the press, in the pulpit, in the circles of the educated and the talented, its influence is growing greater and greater. Excessive wealth in the hands of the few means extreme poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness as the lot of the many. It is not yet time to debate about the remedy. The previous question is as to the danger—the evil. Let the people be fully informed and convinced as to the evil. Let them earnestly seek the remedy and it will be found. Fully to know the evil is the first step towards reaching its eradication. Henry George is strong when he portrays the rottenness of the present system. We are, to say the least, not yet ready for his remedy. We may reach and remove the difficulty by changes in the laws regulating corporations, descents of property, wills, trusts, taxation, and a host of other important interests, not omitting lands and other property.

At least a Capitalist reformer.

The contents to the right of each option (Ex: Civil Service Reform) are just references to what someone at that knowledge level may thoroughly know (and can carry a conservation about)

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In this series, I will create an alternate C-span survey called D-span Survey. We will have 5 parameters- Economic Management, Moral Authority and Relation with Congress, International Relations, Administrative Skills, and Performance with context to his time. We will one-by-one move toward each goal. Each President will be given marks out of 100( 20 for each criterion). 20 Points will be given on the basis of approval rating.

George Washington- 16.112(Great)

John Adams- 12.51(Good)

Thomas Jefferson- 15.42(Very Good)

James Madison- 14.24(Very Good)

James Monroe- 16.24(Great)[HIGHEST]

John Q Adams- 12.9(Good)

Andrew Jackson- 8.55(Mildly Satisfactory)

Martin Van Buren- 8.29(Mildly Satisfactory)

William H Harrison- 13.875(IDK why?)

John Tyler- 9.7(Mildly Satisfactory)

James K Polk- 14.51(Very Good)

Zachery Taylor- 12(Good)

Millard Fillmore- 12.13(Good)

Franklin Pierce- 8.38(Mildly Satisfactory)

James Buchanan-5.77(Hazardous)[LOWEST]

Abraham Lincoln- 16.10(Great)

Andrew Johnson-10.58(Satisfactory)

Ulysses S Grant-12(Good)

*Internation Relation completed till 3rd President. Go Vote here for James Madison

How do you assess Rutherford B. Hayes on the parameter of Economic Management?

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Note: I'll be on vacation without internet for the next week, so I'm sorry but you'll have to wait to give me your opinion on James A. Garfield

Question: On a scale from 1 to 5, how would you rate 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes?

Finding the averages of this sub's opinions of each President. I'll being doing 'the tier list that will create the least argument' at the end. I'll also just make a post about interesting things relating to the final scoring, such as patterns, and how the list compares to other polls made by professionals.

Averages:

1. George Washington - 4.72 (Almost Perfect)
2. Abraham Lincoln - 4.67 (Almost Perfect)
3. James Monroe - 4.15 (Very Good)
4. Thomas Jefferson - 4.04 (Very Good)
5. James K. Polk - 3.75 (Good)
6. James Madison - 3.67 (Good)
7. Ulysses S. Grant - 3.49 (Mildly Good)
8. John Quincy Adams - 3.21 (Mildly Good)
9. William Henry Harrison - 3.06 (Mildly Good) [Most of the votes were probably jokes but oh well]
10. Zachary Taylor - 2.98 (Mildly Bad)
11. John Adams - 2.72 (Mildly Bad)
12. Andrew Jackson - 2.59 (Mildly Bad)
13. Millard Fillmore - 2.58 (Mildly Bad)
14. Martin Van Buren - 2.24 (Bad)
15. John Tyler - 2.21 (Bad)
16. Andrew Johnson - 1.59 (Very Bad)
17. Franklin Pierce - 1.52 (Very Bad)
18. James Buchanan - 1.34 (Almost Irredeemable)

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