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💡 Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware on 4 October 1822 and went on to serve as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. A staunch abolitionist who had defended refugee slaves as Cincinnati's city solicitor, he left a budding political career to join the Union army at the start of the Civil War, was wounded five times, and rose to brevet major general.