Samuel Tilden facts

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Samuel J. Tilden, the guy who lost the 1876 U.S. Presidential election by a razor-thin margin, bears the phrase "I Still Trust The People" on his gravestone.

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Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote in the 1876 U.S. Presidential election but lost the election by one electoral vote.

What was samuel j. tilden known for?

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what was samuel tilden known for?

1. During the 1876 presidential election, after an Oregon elector was deemed inadmissible because he held elected office, he was replaced by an elector who voted for Democrat candidate Samuel Tilden, although future president Rutherford B. Hayes won the majority of votes in the state.

2. Samuel Tilden, who was a US presidential candidate in 1876 and also head of his family's pharmaceutical company, which manufactured a popular extract based on medicinal cannabis that was billed as "Phrenic, anæsthetic, anti-spasmodic and hypnotic" and better than opium.

3. In 1877 an informal, unwritten deal sent Rutherford B Hayes to the US presidency instead of Samuel Tilden who had actually won the popular vote. In exchange, reconstruction (post-Civil War) collapsed and it would be another 75 years until congress seriously considered civil rights again.

4. Samuel Tilden, the guy who extremely narrowly lost the 1876 U.S. Presidential election, waited until June 13, 1877 to concede the election.

5. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won the U.S. presidential election by a single electoral college vote (185-184)... while his Democrat challenger Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote by 3 percentage points (50.9%-47.9%)

6. In the 1876 election, Samuel Tilden won 50.9% of the popular vote, but somehow still lost the election to Rutherford Hayes 184 electorates to 185. It still stands as the highest voter turnout in American history at 81.8% of the population.