Samuel J. Tilden

(noun)

The Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876— one of the most controversial American elections of the nineteenth century—who lost to Rutherford B. Hayes.

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Examples of Samuel J. Tilden in the following topics:

  • The Compromise of 1877

    • Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J.
    • Tilden had won the popular vote by almost a quarter of a million votes, but he did not have a clear Electoral College majority.
    • A total of 185 votes constituted an Electoral College majority; hence, Tilden needed only one of the disputed votes, while Hayes needed all twenty.
    • Many Democrats who believed that they had been cheated threatened, "Tilden or Blood!"
    • Congressman Henry Watterson of Kentucky declared that an army of 100,000 men was prepared to march on Washington if Tilden was denied the presidency.

  • The Bourbons and the Redeemers

    • Bourbon Democrat was a term used in the United States from 1876 to 1904 to refer to a member of the Democratic Party, conservative or classical liberal—especially one who supported Charles O'Conor in 1872, Samuel J.
    • Tilden in 1876, President Grover Cleveland in 1884–1888/1892–1896, and Alton B.

  • The Election of 1976

    • Carter is one of five Democrats to gain a majority of the popular vote since the American Civil War, with the others being Samuel Tilden, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama.

  • The Decline of Labor

    • Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor died in 1924 after serving as the organization's president for 37 years.
    • Additionally, Will J.

  • The Haymarket Affair

    • Parsons spoke for almost an hour before standing down in favor of the last speaker of the evening, Samuel Fielden , who delivered a brief 10 minute address.
    • Its fuse briefly sputtered, then the bomb exploded, killing policeman Mathias J.
    • The death sentences of two of the defendants were commuted by Illinois governor Richard J.

  • The Muckrakers

    • Muckraking publishers like Samuel S.
    • Samuel S.
    • Glavis, Will Irwin, J.M.
    • Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958) — The Great American Fraud (1905), exposed false claims about patent medicines Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946) — of McClure's & The American Magazine Burton J.
    • According to Fred J.

  • Regulation

    • Pro labor progressives, such as Samuel Gompers, argued that industrial monopolies were unnatural economic institutions which suppressed the competition that was necessary for progress and improvement.
    • After 1907, the American Federation of Labor, under Samuel Gompers, moved to demand legal reforms that would support labor unions.
    • Daniel J.

  • The Transformed National Economy

    • Other giants in addition to Rockefeller and Ford included Jay Gould, who made his money in railroads, J.
    • The Knights collapsed in the 1880s and were displaced by strong international unions that banded together as the American Federation of Labor under Samuel Gompers.

  • Social Justice

    • After 1907, the American Federation of Labor, under Samuel Gompers, moved to demand legal reforms that would support labor unions.
    • Daniel J.

  • AFL and WWI

    • While the organization was founded by socialists such as Gompers and Peter J.
    • American Federation of Labor head Samuel Gompers (right) endorsed the pro-labor independent Presidential candidate Robert M.