After Grant

 

On March 4, 1869, Grant was sworn in as the eighteenth President of the United States by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. In his inaugural address, Grant urged the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, while large numbers of African Americans attended his inauguration. He also urged that bonds issued during the Civil War should be paid in gold and called for "proper treatment" of Native Americans and encouraged their "civilization and ultimate citizenship".

Mar 4, 1873 -- Ulysses Grant sworn in for a second four-year term as President. 

Nov 7, 1876 -- U.S. Presidential Election of 1876

Early returns on election night indicated that the Democratic nominee, Governor Samuel Tilden of New York, had won.

His victory was apparent because he looked to be carrying the three unreconstructed states of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. Any one of these three would bring him within a single Electoral Vote of victory. 

He was on his well to winning the nationwide popular vote too. The victory would. make him the first Democrat to win the Presidential election in twenty years, since before the Civil War. It was an indication of the direction of the Democratic Party in being a coalition of the Old South together with the urbanizing Northeast of machine politics and immigrant populations.

Mar 4, 1877 -- Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, the Republican nominee, is inaugurated as the nineteenth U.S. President, succeeding Grant.