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In 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
ran for President against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden who won the popular
vote, but with 20 Electoral College votes in dispute after Election Day, the
Congress enacted the “Compromise of 1877.”
The "Compromise of 1877" stipulated that Republicans would withdraw federal troops from
the South, thus ending Reconstruction, and Democrats in return would agree
to sending the disputed votes to Hayes, making him the nation’s 19th
president. Four years later, Hayes -- who had pledged to serve just one term,
retired from politics.
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