Most Republicans recognize by 1876 that it…

Most Republicans recognize by 1876 that it is time to change both the candidate and his Reconstruction program despite the hope of President Ulysses S. Grant for a third term in office: the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, a moderate Republican of high principles and of deep sympathy for the South, marks the end of the Radical domination of the Republican Party.

Hayes, third-time Governor of Ohio, former congressman and brevet major general under General Philip Sheridan in the Civil War, wins a seventh-ballot victory over James G. Blaine at the Republican National Convention in 1876.