University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Rutherford Hayes: Campaigns and Elections
Read this very thorough discussion of the nomination process for the candidates for both the Republican and Democratic Parties in the election of 1876. In addition, the explanation of the eventual outcome of the disputed election is very...
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University at Albany: Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall Machine
A good essay on the political machine of the Gilded Age, the Tweed Ring.