...history to add to a trip here. For some reason, unknown even to me, (and I've written about this place before), I left the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center out of my U.S. presidents with Ohio connections round-up post. So, if you're going to head to...
...Rutherford B. Hayes’ hometown of Delaware, Ohio, there’s a memorial to the late U.S. president; it’s a plaque that marks his birthplace, which is now a gas station. In Paraguay, people would find this fact horribly offensive. Perhaps that’s because the country...
...B. Hayes was the first US President to have a telephone and a typewriter in the White House. You may not remember Hayes, but he started the very first Easter Egg hunt on the lawn of the White House, a tradition that still continues today on the Monday after...
...are buried in Ohio? Answer: c) Seven presidents — all Republicans — were born in Ohio, but only four of them are interred there: Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and Warren G. Harding. Also buried in Ohio is William Henry Harrison,...
...Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, on Oct. 4, 1822. A graduate of Kenyon College and the Harvard Law School, he practiced law in Lower Sandusky (now Fremont) and then in Cincinnati. In 1852 he married Lucy Webb. A Whig, he joined the Republican party...
...which favored the South." And then came Lincoln. (Cue the thundering applause.) Alas, three presidents later, came Rutherford B. Hayes (cue the groans.) "Hayes lost the popular vote — the Democrats won the popular vote but the Republicans won the electoral...
...is a left-handed attacker for the U.S. women's water polo team — and a descendant of former President Rutherford B. Hayes. The Olympian scored two goals in America's most recent victory, a 12-11 win over China. Team USA plays Italy today at Yingdong Natatorium....
...Kozelek croon over Harry Truman... Well now you can. (You'll have to buy the album if you want to know who plays on the Rutherford B. Hayes song.) That's 43 songs to honor 42 presidents. (Grover Cleveland gets two, one for each useless term he served.) And...
...old man in the accompanying photo is Rutherford B. Hayes, an ex-governor of Ohio — where tonight’s Democratic debate takes place — and eventual president of the United States. Hayes was elected in 1876, perhaps the closest, most controversial election in American...
...The second spot was like one of those Secret Santa gifts you receive from a fellow employee who doesn't know you very well. When Rutherford B. Hayes first got word that he was going to be hooked up with Representative William Wheeler of New York, Hayes enthusiastically...