Article: People's choice bows to Hayes.(Washington Weekend)

Only three times in American history did the popular vote winner go down in defeat, either in the House of Representatives or in the Electoral College. Two candidates - Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland - later won.

The third, Samuel J. Tilden of New York, did not, despite winning more than 2 million more votes than his nearest foe. His 1876 battle with Rutherford B. Hayes came closest to plunging the nation back into civil war.

Cold and arrogant, with mutton chops and dimples, Samuel Jones Tilden was a brilliant lawyer with an incredibly secretive disposition. He was born on Feb. 9, 1814, in New Lebanon, N.Y., and as a young man studied law at ...

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