Rutherford B. Hayes

Part I of Essay
(19th president) Rutherford Bichard Hayes was not a well know president. He was not president that had the opportunity to lead us through a war. He was not a president that would draw much attention to the public eye. He was however one of the presidents that had a grea ....

Part II of Essay
.... of his class. After a year of study in a Columbus law office, he entered Harvard Law School and received his degree in 1845. Hayes began his practice in a small town called Lower Sandusky. Not finding many opportunities here, he left for Cincinnati in 1849 where he became a successful lawyer. In 1952, Hayes married Lucy Ware Webb, a graduate from Wesleyan Women’s College. She would later become the first wife of a President to have graduated from college. When the Civil War began, Hayes offered his services to the State of ....