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President Hayes   /prˈɛzədˌɛnt heɪz/   Listen
President Hayes

noun
1.
19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893).  Synonyms: Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes.






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"President Hayes" Quotes from Famous Books



... character is one to inspire and to reward study as an example of intellectual and moral greatness. This man is Nathan Cook Meeker, the founder of the town of Greeley, Colorado; the founder and for many years the editor of the Greeley "Tribune;" later appointed by President Hayes, in a somewhat confidential capacity, the Indian Commissioner at White River, where he died the death of a hero, and where, marking the spot of the tragic massacre, the town of Meeker now stands, among the mountains of ...
— The Life Radiant • Lilian Whiting

... Union, and remained in New Orleans when the Federals took possession, but refused to bear arms against his brothers and friends. His position enabled him to render signal services to many Confederate prisoners suffering under Butler's rule. And it was a conversation of his with President Hayes, when he told the full, unprejudiced truth about the Dual Government and the popular sentiment of Louisiana, which put an end to Reconstruction there by the Washington Government's recognition of General Francis T. Nicholls, elected Governor by ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson

... Evangelical Alliance held in N.Y. City 1873, the leading American on the Committee for the Revision of the Bible. After resigning the presidency he continued to lecture at Yale until his death, 1889. There was no more eminent American in unofficial life from 1840 to 1890 than he. President Hayes once said that he was greatly perplexed at one time as to the line of public policy which he should pursue until it occurred to him that President Woolsey was the one American on whose judgment ...
— Jukes-Edwards - A Study in Education and Heredity • A. E. Winship



Words linked to "President Hayes" :   president, Chief Executive, United States President, President of the United States



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