Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Allen G. Thurman Thomas F. Bayard George F. Edmunds Oliver Hazard Perry Morton Henry B. Payne Eppa Hunton Frederick T. Frelinghuysen George Frisbie Hoar Nathan Clifford Stephen Johnson Field Samuel Freeman Miller William Strong Joseph Philo Bradley Thomas W. Ferry David Davis William A. Wheeler Samuel J. Tilden Thomas A. Hendricks.
with--Printed admission ticket to the Gallery of the House of Representatives during the counting of the 1876 election votes on February 8, 1877. 3x4 3/4 inches. 1877.
The 1876 presidential election is one of the few elections in U.S. history in which the winner received fewer popular votes than the challenger; this fact was especially important in 1876, because in this election, the highest-ever percentage of eligible voters went to the polls. The hostility evoked by the controversial election contributed to bringing about the end of the era of Reconstruction.