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Events on Monday 5 March 1877 2
1877 – 1881Hayes presidency19th President — 1877 to 1881Rutherford B. Hayes served as the 19th President from March 5, 1877 to March 4, 1881. He ended Reconstruction, withdrew federal troops from the South, and began civil service reform.
1877Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as US presidentTakes office after the disputed 1876 electionRutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as the 19th President of the United States on 5 March 1877, following a bitterly contested election resolved by a special Electoral Commission. His inauguration followed the informal Compromise of 1877, under which Democrats accepted his presidency in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.