At nearly four in the morning on March 2, 1877, Congress finally announced the winner of a presidential election held 115 days earlier.
Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel J. Tilden by a single electoral vote - after disputed returns, rival certificates, partisan returning boards, an unprecedented Electoral Commission, and private political assurances that helped bring Reconstruction to an end.
We follow the contest from election night through Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Oregon, the Electoral Commission, and the final overnight count. But what price did the country pay for this compromise?
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