In Florida the Democrats won the governor's election and controlled the state house, leaving South Carolina and Louisiana as the only states in which the Republican regimes was supported by Federal troops.[138]

^ Hayes's predecessor, President Ulysses S. Grant, appointed the first Civil Service Commission in 1871, but it dissolved in 1874.[145]

^ Charles K. Graham filled Merritt's former position.[153]

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