Vice President: William A. Wheeler Secretary of State: William M. Evarts Secretary of the Treasury: John Sherman Secretary of War: George W. McCrary;
Alexander Ramsey (from December 1879) Attorney General: Charles Devens Postmaster General: David M. Key; Horace Maynard (from August 1880)
Secretary of the Navy: Richard W. Thompson; Nathan Goff, Jr. (from January 1881) Secretary of the Interior: Carl Schurz Supreme Court Appointments: John Marshall Harlan (1877); William Burnham Woods (1880)
Father: Rutherford Hayes (1787-1822) Mother: Sophia Birchard Hayes (1792-1866)
Wife: Lucy Ware Webb (1831-1889)
Marriage: December 30, 1852
Children: Sardis (1853-1926); James Webb Cook (1856-1934); Rutherford Platt (1858-1931); Joseph (1861-1863); George (1864-1866); Frances “Fanny”
(1867-1950); Scott Russell (1871-1923); Manning Force (1873-1874)
When Rutherford Hayes was a child, he won elementary school contests in spelling.
His wife, Lucy Webb, was the first first lady to graduate from a college (Wesleyan). She began the annual Easter egg-rolling on the White House lawn.
Hayes installed the first telephone in the White House and placed his first call to Alexander Graham Bell.
He was the first president to travel to the West Coast while in office.
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