The president-elect, deemed "His Fraudulency" by Northern Democrats, ended Reconstruction.
One candidate had revolutionized the Maryland train system with his "Tom Thumb" locomotive and ran under a party that wanted to repeal the Resumption Act. Eventually causing the Wormley Conference, William E. Chandler first urged his party into the fiasco in which Illinois Independent David Davis rejected a post that was filled by Republican Joseph Bradley, the final chair on the Electoral Commission. The president-elect, deemed "His Fraudulency" by Northern Democrats, ended Reconstruction. FTP, name this U.S. presidential election when a few votes in South Carolina meant Samuel Tilden lost to Rutherford B. Hayes.          |
One candidate had revolutionized the Maryland train system with his "Tom Thumb" locomotive and ran under a party that wanted to repeal the Resumption Act.
Election of {1876}