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Event:  Democratic National Convention of 1876
Category:  Politics and Government
Brief Description:  The Democratic National Convention was held in St. Louis´s Merchants Exchange Building in 1876. The convention nominiated Goivernor Samuel J. Tilden of New York, who went on to lose the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes in a close election.
Year:  1876
Decade:  1870 - 1879

 

 

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