The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican Governor Rutherford B.
Although Tilden received some 265,000 more popular votes than his opponent, and needed only one more electoral vote for victory, contested returns in three southern states still under Republican-controlled Reconstruction government.
It was also, in many ways, the final battle of the Civil War.
Hayes and New York Democratic Governor Samuel Tilden was the most sensational and corrupt presidential Election in American history.
The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican Governor Rutherford B