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Rutherford H. Platt: Who could ask for more than that?
Published: 1/8/2021 4:20:28 PM
Modified: 1/8/2021 4:20:13 PM
The seditious attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election has inevitably drawn comparisons to the highly contested election of my great-great uncle Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. While that election was indeed a sorry chapter in American history, the implication that Hayes was a 19th century version of Trump is entirely misplaced. I earlier contrasted candidate Trump with Hayes in a column in this newspaper (July 11, 2016) and I now write again in defense of my ancestor. Rutherford Hayes was a child of the frontier whose family migrated from Brattleboro, Vermont to Ohio in 1817. With the support of a wealthy uncle, he was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School. He was a wounded Union officer in the Civil War, a two-term congressman, and three-term governor of Ohio. He was not an eager Republican candidate for the presidency and like
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