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Choice ink signature, “Rutherford B. Hayes” clipped from a letter. In overall fine condition. A desirable and less common example of Hayes’s full signature.”
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, having served also as an American representative and governor of Ohio. Hayes was a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings in the antebellum years.