answers: Rutherford B. Hayes
context: to give him the election. Soon after his inauguration as President, Adams appointed Henry Clay as his secretary of state. This result became a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a "corrupt bargain," and were inspired to create the Democratic Party. The 1876 presidential election was one of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history. The result of the election remains among the most disputed ever, although there is no question that Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular </s> while incumbent Benjamin Harrison was renominated by the Republican Party. James Weaver, the Greenback Party candidate in 1880, was the candidate of the People's Party and John Bidwell was the candidate of the Prohibition Party. The People's Party did well, pulling thousands of votes away from Harrison. Overall, Cleveland received 5,551,883 (46.2%) votes, Harrison received 5,179,244 votes, Weaver received 1,024,280 votes, and Bidwell received 270,770 votes. Former President Theodore Roosevelt challenged his hand-picked successor, President William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination. Despite losing 10 of 12 Republican primaries, the party regulars renominated Taft on the first ballot. Roosevelt refused </s> platform advocating the abolishment of slavery. James Buchanan replaced the ineffective incumbent Franklin Pierce for the Democratic Party, and former President Millard Fillmore was the candidate of the anti-immigrant American Party, also known as the "Know-Nothings". Buchanan did not campaign and carried most slave states and scored a decisive victory in the west. Overall, Buchanan received 1,836,072 (45.3%) votes, while Fremont received 1,342,345 votes, and Fillmore received 873,053 votes. By the election of 1860, the Republican Party had become a unified force, having gained control of the House of Representatives. Abraham Lincoln became the Republican nominee after his backers promised
question: who won the presidential election by one vote