Embroiled in the election controversy of 1876, FTP, identify this 19th president of the U.S. who won after a Congressional commission picked him over Samuel Tilden.
He joined the 23rd Ohio Regiment at the outset of the Civil War and emerged a major general of a respected volunteer group.  He came into his most famous office after serving as governor of Ohio from 1868-72.  He firmly supported his Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman in his efforts to give Civil War greenback dollars backing in gold, and the Bland-Allison Act had to be passed over his veto.  Embroiled in the election controversy of 1876, FTP, identify this 19th president of the U.S. who won after a Congressional commission picked him over Samuel Tilden.
He joined the 23rd Ohio Regiment at the outset of the Civil War and emerged a major general of a respected volunteer group.  
Rutherford B. Hayes