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Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed United States presidential election of 1876. It consisted of 15 members. The election was contested by the Democratic ticket, Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, and the Republican ticket, Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler. Twenty electoral votes, from the states of Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina, were in dispute; the resolution of these disputes would determine the outcome of the election. Facing a constitutional crisis the likes of which the nation had never seen, Congress passed a law forming the Electoral Commission to settle the result. Members: Senator Thomas F. Bayard (Delaware), Senator Allen G. Thurman (Ohio), Senator George F. Edmunds (Vermont), Senator Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (New Jersey), Senator Oliver Hazard, Senator Perry Morton (Indiana), Congressman Josiah Gardner Abbott (Massachusetts, Congressman Eppa Hunton (Virginia), Congressman Henry B. Payne (Ohio), Congressman James A. Garfield (Ohio), Congressman George Frisbie Hoar (Massachusetts), Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford* (Maine), Supreme Court Justic Stephen Johnson Field (California), Supreme Court Justice Joseph Philo Bradley (New Jersey), Supreme Court Justice Samuel Freeman Miller (Iowa), Supreme Court Justice William Strong (Pennsylvania).

Politicians

1877

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Nineteenth Century Political Party Photograph Collection