James Wormley
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James Wormley was the owner and operator of the Wormley Hotel, which opened in Washington D.C. in 1871. He was the only African American
at the bedside of Abraham Lincoln
when he died.
The hotel was the site of the Wormley Agreement, which resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876
, contested between Rutherford B. Hayes
and Samuel J. Tilden
.
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
at the bedside of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
when he died.
The hotel was the site of the Wormley Agreement, which resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876
United States presidential election, 1876
The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed and controversial presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes's 165, with 20 votes uncounted...
, contested between Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...
and Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel Jones Tilden was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial American elections of the 19th century. He was the 25th Governor of New York...
.
External links
- Wormley Project website
- Portrait by Henry UlkeHenry UlkeHenry Ulke was an American photographer and portrait painter.-Biography:Henry Ulke was born in Frankenstein, Prussia, and studied painting in Breslau, and also in Berlin under Wach...