The 1880 Republican National Convention was held from June 2 to June 8, 1880, at the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Delegates nominated James A. Garfield of Ohio a
President Ulysses S. Grant, c. 1880
James G. Blaine, c. 1870s
John Sherman as treasury secretary
James A. Garfield as brigadier general during the Civil War
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. He served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861 and was known as a staunch abolitionist who
Portrait, c. 1870–1880
Rutherford and Lucy Hayes on their wedding day
Hayes in Civil War uniform in 1861
George Crook was Hayes's commander and the namesake of his fourth son