Rutherford Baines Hayes
19th President of the United States
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President Rutherford Baines Hayes was a total badass who was wounded in the Civil War. He had one of the tightest elections in history, and didn’t seek reelection - keeping a promise that he wouldn’t. He removed all alcohol from the White House, because he was boring as fuck, but he also had 8 kids. As president, he signed legislation that allowed women to argue before the Supreme Court. He started the Easter Egg Roll, and he is the first president to have a phone in the White House with the phone number ‘1’. He was a stanch abolitionist who defended slaves in court, and encouraged black students to apply for scholarships. One of those students who applied, was W. E. B. Du Bois.
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