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#19 · 1877–1881
Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · A famously close election
Rutherford B. Hayes won one of the closest, most argued-about elections in history. His presidency marked the end of the Reconstruction period after the Civil War.
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His family is said to have held the first Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
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