During the 1876 Republican National Convention held in Cincinnati , Ohio , Marshall Jewell was nominated by the State of Connecticut for President of the United United States . Grant chose not to run and the Republicans did not choose to nominate him for a consecutive third term . Jewell was the first person from the State of Connecticut to be nominated at a national Republican Presidential Convention . On the first Presidential ballot , Jewell received 11 votes , ten from Connecticut . Jewell 's name , however , was withdrawn from the remaining ballots . Benjamin Bristow also ran for the Republican presidential candidacy , but he could not get enough votes at the end of the balloting . Although Bristow was a frontrunner and had Jewell 's support , he was considered controversial for his prosecution of the Whiskey Ring , a scandal that involved prominent Republican Party members . Instead , Rutherford B. Hayes , went on to win the Republican Presidential nomination by receiving 384 votes on the seventh ballot . Jewell was also nominated for Vice President of the United States by S.H. Russell from Texas ; however , William A. Wheeler was unanimously nominated on the first ballot by 366 majority votes . William Kellogg withdrew Jewell 's name from the ballot after the votes cast were unanimously for Wheeler . The state of Connecticut named Jewell on the 1876 Republican National Committee who elected Zachariah Chandler as chairman
1876 Republican National Convention
1876 Republican National Convention
Marshall Jewell