<P> In 1876 , Hayes was elected president in one of the most contentious elections in national history . He lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden but he won an intensely disputed electoral college vote after a Congressional commission awarded him twenty contested electoral votes . The result was the Compromise of 1877 , in which the Democrats acquiesced to Hayes 's election on the condition that he withdraw remaining U.S. troops protecting Republican office holders in the South , thus officially ending the Reconstruction era . </P>
<P> In 1876 , Hayes was elected president in one of the most contentious elections in national history . He lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden but he won an intensely disputed electoral college vote after a Congressional commission awarded him twenty contested electoral votes . The result was the Compromise of 1877 , in which the Democrats acquiesced to Hayes 's election on the condition that he withdraw remaining U.S. troops protecting Republican office holders in the South , thus officially ending the Reconstruction era . </P>
which president entered the white house after the heavily disputed election of 1876
which president entered the white house after the heavily disputed election of 1876
Hayes
Hayes