|Image courtesy of Library of Congress| HAYES, Rutherford
Birchard, a Representative from Ohio and 19th President of the
United States; born in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio, October
4, 1822; attended the common schools, the Methodist Academy in
Norwalk, Ohio, and the Webb Preparatory School in Middletown,
Conn.; graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in August
1842 and from the Harvard Law School in January 1845; admitted
to the bar on May 10, 1845, and commenced practice in Lower
Sandusky (now Fremont); moved to Cincinnati in 1849 and resumed
the practice of law; city solicitor 1857-1859; commissioned
major of the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
June 27, 1861; lieutenant colonel October 24, 1861; colonel
October 24, 1862; brigadier general of Volunteers October 9,
1864; brevetted major general of Volunteers March 3, 1865;
elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1865, to July 20, 1867, when
he resigned, having been nominated for Go