TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES

(181486), lawyer and statesman; 6. in New Lebanon, New York; d. at Greystone-on the-Hudson, educated at Yale and New York University; admitted to the bar, 1841; member of State legislature, 1846. In 1872 he was active in the prosecution of the Tweed Ring. Governor of New York, 1875-76. Nominated for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention, St. Louis, June, 1876, he had a majority of the popular vote in the election but because of alleged frauds in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida the Republicans claimed victory. Congre appointed an electoral commi ion consisting of 5 justices of the Supreme Court, 5 senators, and 5 Representatives, who by a strict party vote of 8 to 7 gave the election to Hayes. Most of Tilden’s $5,000,000 fortune was bequeathed to founding a Public Library. but owing to a litigation over the will only $2,000,000 went to the Tilden Foundation.