In 1876, Democrat Samuel Tilden beat Republican Governor Rutherford Hayes by 51-48 %.

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Rutherford Hayes had a heart attack and died three days later.

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In 1880, when it was time to decommission the Resolute, the Queen had some of its timbers built into a desk and given to President Rutherford Hayes.

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The 1876 contest was between two respected men, Samuel Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York, who had broken up the Tammany Hall corruption system, and Rutherford Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio.

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The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling and dealing of competing slates of Southern electors.

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