• Served under future president Rutherford B. Hayes during the Civil War

  • Hayes said he was “exceedingly bright… and gentlemanly… he promises to be one of the best."

  • “A tantalizing enigma,” according to a historian

  • After he was shot, he asked that no one hurt Leon Czolgosz (his assassin) and that his wife, Ida, be told gently

Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

I’ve read at least one book about every U.S. president, never tire of shoehorning presidential trivia into conversations, and am basically an expert at hiding mistakes in my sketchbooks.

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