One candidate in this election would later be an arbitrator of the War of the Triple Alliance, while the other major party candidate gained fame for breaking the Canal Ring and the Tweed (*) Ring.
One candidate in this election would later be an arbitrator of the War of the Triple Alliance, while the other major party candidate gained fame for breaking the Canal Ring and the Tweed (*) Ring. After David Davis resigned, a 15-member commission voted on party lines to award twenty disputed electoral votes from Oregon, Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina to the Republican candidate, who won by a single electoral vote. The Democrats then dropped their challenge in exchange for the end of Reconstruction. FTP, name this election in which Samuel Tilden was defeated by Rutherford B. Hayes.
One candidate in this election would later be an arbitrator of the War of the Triple Alliance, while the other major party candidate gained fame for breaking the Canal Ring and the Tweed (*) Ring.
Election of {1876}