Rutherford Birchard Hayes naît à Delaware dans l'Ohio le 4 octobre 1822.Il est le fils de Rutherford Hayes et de Sophia Birchard. Le père de Hayes, commerçant du Vermont, emmène sa famille dans l'Ohio en 1817 mais meurt dix jours avant la naissance de son fils.Sophia, qui ne se remaria jamais [1], reste donc seule pour élever le jeune Rutherford et sa sœur, Fanny, les deux …

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS, HonFRSE (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Apart from his work in his homeland, he spent a substantial amount of …

The Electoral Commission, sometimes referred to as the Hayes-Tilden or Tilden-Hayes Electoral Commission, was a temporary body created by the United States Congress on January 29, 1877, to resolve the disputed United States presidential election of 1876. Democrat Samuel J. Tilden and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes were the main contenders in the election. . Tilden won …

The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.