Did You Know?

• Rutherford B. Hayes had nicknames like: Granny Hayes, Rutherfraud Hayes, Rutherford the Rover, His Fruadlency, Ruthie Hayes, and Ruddy.
• Rutherford B. Hayes has the longest beard out of all other bearded presidents.
  

• Hayes had the first telephone installed into the White House. Abraham Graham Bell gave him instructions on how to use it.
• Hayes also had the first phonograph installed into the White House.
• Hayes installed the first running water system into the White House as well.
  
• Rutherford was the first president to visit Pacific Coast during his presidency.
• The Hayes family had gotten rid of all alcoholic beverages from the White House and every night would sing Gospel Hymns.
• Rutherford’s family held the first White House Easter Egg Roll for children.
• Hayes was the only president to win his election by one electoral vote.
• Electricity was created during his presidential term.

• Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes’s wife, was the first women to receive the term “First Lady.”
• President Hayes was one of the three presidents to keep a diary and he had his diary since the age of 12.
• Since Lucy Hayes had gotten rid of all alcoholic beverages in the White House, she was given the nickname “Lemonade Lucy.”
• The Women’s Suffrage Amendment was proposed into the U.S. Congress during Hayes’s presidential term.
• President Hayes was the only president of five to fight in the Civil War and be wounded; he was wounded 4 times during the Civil War.
• All five presidents that fought in the Civil War were born in Ohio.
  
• Lucy Hayes had also gotten rid of smoking, dancing, and card playing from the White House.
• President Hayes never met his father, because he died a three months before Hayes was born.
• Hayes was also the first president to have a typewriter installed into the White House.
• Hayes served two different terms as the Governor of Ohio.
• Rutherford Hayes had eight children.

Five of the eight children.

• President Hayes was a lawyer, soldier, and a politician before becoming president.
• Hayes was the third president to have his oath posponed to Moday March 5, becuase it was March 4, a Sunday. However, he had his oath privately in the White House on March 3.
• Sara Hayes, one of Rutherford Hayes’s sisters, died at the age of 4, two years before Rutherford was born.
• Rutherford’s older brother, Lorenzo Hayes, died by ice skating on thin ice and drowning.
• Lucy Webb Hayes was the first wife of a president to earn a college degree.