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2 unusual facts about Walter I. Hayes


Walter I. Hayes

Hayes won the general election that year and represented the 2nd district in the 50th United States Congress.

While in Congress, Hayes served as chairman of the Committee on Education in the Fifty-second Congress.


American Cocker Spaniel

A parti-colored American Cocker Spaniel named Dot was one of several dogs owned by Rutherford B. Hayes; and a buff colored dog named Feller caused a scandal for Harry S. Truman when the dog was received as an unwanted gift with the President subsequently giving it away to a White House physician.

Amphitrite-class monitor

When the Hayes administration came to power in 1877, it appointed a new Secretary of the Navy, Richard W. Thompson, to replace Robeson.

Annie Bidwell

While Annie and John Bidwell resided in the mansion, they were hosts to many prominent figures of their era, including: President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, and Asa Gray.

Back Creek Farm

The house served that day as a hospital and as headquarters for the Union General George Crook, under whose command were Captains Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.

Baker, Louisiana

Rufus D. Hayes, the first Louisiana insurance commissioner, was an East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney and judge who resided in Baker at the time of his death in 2002.

Bedford, Pennsylvania

Rutherford B. Hayes, and Benjamin Harrison visited Chalybeate Springs Hotel, as did many other notable people.

Benjamín Aceval

It is named after the Paraguayan diplomat who took documents related to the Chaco Boreal dispute with Argentina, after the Paraguayan War, to the President of the U.S.A. Rutherford B. Hayes.

Blue Diamond Stakes

In 2008, with his victory on the David Hayes trained Reaan, jockey Dwayne Dunn achieved the rare feat of winning his fourth consecutive Blue Diamond Stakes.

Blue Lotus Assembly

Blue Lotus Assembly (Sho-Ren Ko) is a form of esoteric Buddhism established in North America by Stephen K. Hayes.

David G. Swaim

When the war ended, he remained in the Army, serving in the Judge Advocate General's Corps until 1879, when President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Judge Advocate General and promoted him to brigadier general.

Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

In 1877, at the request of President Rutherford B. Hayes, he made a careful study of the British civil service, and three years later published Civil Service in Great Britain.

Edward L. Pierce

He was a member of the Republican National Conventions of 1876 and 1884, and in December 1878, was appointed by President Hayes assistant Treasurer of the United States, but declined.

Eliakim P. Scammon

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Scammon offered his services to William Dennison, the Governor of Ohio in June 1861 and was appointed as Colonel of the 23rd Ohio Infantry, commanding two men who would later become Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.

Everis A. Hayes

Hayes was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1919).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

Frank Hayes

Frank L. Hayes (c. 1894-1967), American football and basketball player and coach

General Crook House

In September 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes stayed there while he was reviewing the troops at the Fort.

Irvin McDowell

In 1879, when a Board of Review commissioned by President Rutherford B. Hayes issued its report recommending a pardon for Fitz John Porter, it attributed much of the loss of the Second Battle of Bull Run to McDowell.

Jeremiah Evarts

The effect that Evarts's activism for the rights of indigenous peoples had on U.S. foreign policy through his son, William M. Evarts who was Secretary of State during the Hayes administration (1877-1881), is a question for historians.

John B. Hayes

Under Hayes' leadership, the Coast Guard accomplished a number of firsts for women in the military, including the assignment of Lieutenant (junior grade) Beverly Kelley as the first female commanding officer of a U.S. military vessel, and Lieutenant Kay Hartzell as the first female to command an isolated U.S. military unit.

John Bidwell

Some of the guests who visited Bidwell Mansion were President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray.

Magic Millions

Besides Gai Waterhouse, other famous horse trainers such as Lee Freedman and David Hayes are patrons of the sales.

Max S. Hayes

In 1912 Hayes became the first candidate to challenge Samuel Gompers for the presidency of the American Federation of Labor in nearly a decade, drawing about 30% of the vote in his losing effort.

AF of L President Samuel Gompers temporarily passed on the gavel at the convention so that he could himself speak on the floor during the debate which followed.

He was a frequent representative of the ITU to the annual conventions of the American Federation of Labor.

Ohio Wesleyan Female College

Lucy Webb Hayes, class 1850, First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Rutherford B. Hayes.

Paramarines

Ira H. Hayes, assisted in the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi on 23 February 1945, depicted in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph.

Philip C. Hayes

Hayes was elected as a Republican to the 45th United States Congress in 1876, unseating independent incumbent Alexander Campbell, a theoretician of the Greenback movement; and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878.

RBH

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), 19th President of the United States of America

Reed Opera House and McCornack Block Addition

A number of notable performers made appearances, including local celebrity Hallie Parrish Hinges, artist/political cartoonist Thomas Nast, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison and John Philip Sousa's band.

Robert M. Hayes

He was visiting professor at Loughborough University, Strossmayer University, University of New South Wales, Khazar University, Keio University, University of LIS in Tsukuba Science City (Japan), Nankai University, University of Illinois, and University of Washington.

Samuel Hayes

Samuel E. Hayes, Jr. (born 1940), former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Stephen Hayes

Stephen F. Hayes (born 1974), American senior writer at The Weekly Standard

Steven C. Hayes

He was the first Secretary-Treasurer of the American Psychological Society (now known as the Association for Psychological Science), which he helped form.

Thomas Lemuel James

Grant instead did one better and made him the Postmaster of New York on March 17, 1873, and four years later reappointed by President Hayes.

University, Hayes and Orton Halls

The building is named after President Rutherford B. Hayes, who was also the governor of Ohio and advocated for a newly established land-grant university in Ohio.

USCGC Sherman

Two ships of the United States Coast Guard or its antecedent services have borne the name Sherman, in honor of John Sherman (1823–1900), who was Secretary of the Treasury during the Hayes administration (1877–1881).

Vice President's Room

Six years later, following President James Garfield’s assassination, Vice President Chester Arthur took the presidential oath of office here with two former presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, among those attending the ceremony.

Walter I. Smith

In November 1900, Smith was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to serve out the remainder of the term of Smith McPherson, who had resigned to accept a presidential nomination as federal district court judge.

On the same day, Smith was also elected to serve a full two-year term in the Fifty-seventh Congress, from 1901 to 1903.

Walter McCoy

Walter I. McCoy (1859–1933), American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey

Walter Smith Cox

On February 26, 1879, Cox was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia created by 20 Stat.

Webb Hayes

Born as James Webb Cook Hayes, he was the second son of President Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes.

William Gardner Choate

On March 14, 1878, Choate was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Samuel Blatchford.


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