Rutherford Hayes

These new stamps are great. I like the new design. They have the quality of the 1902 series, but a more modern look for the time. The colors are good, but I wish they had done the images of the people in black, like they did with the one and two-dollar stamps of Benjamin Franklin in 1918 and 1920 (see Smudges) – or the last one on this page of the statue from the top of the U.S. Capitol building. Using all the same color as they did here, the people depicted are a little washed out, the orange James Monroe stamp in particular – although I like that design the best.

Still, I like the overall design, the reintroduction of several persons – not just Washington and Franklin – and the colors. I also like that they added one of a Native America and another of a bison, as well as some government buildings, Niagra Falls and the Golden Gate in San Francisco.

Rutherford Hayes

Rutherford Hayes is included in this batch of stamps – there are two of him. He was the nineteenth president of the U.S. – the president after Grant. When he ran for president in 1876, he tied with Samuel Tilden for electoral votes. The U.S. Congress, by way of an Electoral Commission decided which would be elected. Hayes was chosen in part because he pledged not to run for re-election – which he didn’t. He believed in one-term presidents anyway, and supported a change to the U.S. Constitution to limit presidents to one six-year term.

As president, Hayes ended the Reconstruction of the southern, former Confederate states. It was meant to help in rebuilding those states after the Civil War, but the result was that they were abused by many northern opportunists. Slavery was abolished, but the states were robbed of many resources and money by what were known as carpet-baggers.

Hayes also reformed many of the civil service agencies, giving jobs based on abilities and merits – no longer as political favors like previous administrations had done. He also put the U.S. dollar on a gold standard, which helped to stabilize the economy then. It would remain tied to gold until the 1930s when President Franklin Roosevelt suspended it during the Great Depression. It was completely eliminated in 1971.

Note

This page is full of stamps, but I have one that’s used: the last one on the fourth row of a buffalo. I’ve had that stamp in my cart many times when buying stamps on-line. It’s not too expensive: from thirty-five to fifty dollars, depending on the quality and seller. But when it comes time to check-out, I remove it to reduce the total cost for the order. If I didn’t have such a clean used copy, I would have bought it by now.

Contains 26 spots: own 26 – 26 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description
1.1	✓	551	Nathan Hale	½c (apr 1925) definitive, olive brown
1.2	✓	552	Benjamin Franklin	1c (jan 1923) definitive, dark green
1.3	✓	553	Warren Harding	1½c (mar 1925) definitive, yellow brown
1.4	✓	554	George Washington	2c (jan 1923) definitive, carmine
2.1	✓	555	Abraham Lincoln	3c (feb 1923) definitive, violet
2.2	✓	556	Martha Washington	4c (jan 1923) definitive, yellow brown
2.3	✓	557	Theodore Roosevelt	5c (oct 1922) definitive, dark blue
2.4	✓	558	James Garfield	6c (nov 1922) definitive, red orange
2.5	✓	559	William McKinley	7c (may 1923) definitive, black
3.1	✓	560	Ulysses Grant	8c (may 1923) definitive, olive
3.2	✓	561	Thomas Jefferson	9c (jan 1923) definitive, pink
3.3	✓	562	James Monroe	10c (jan 1923) definitive, orange
3.4	✓	563	Rutherford Hayes	11c (oct 1922) definitive, greenish blue
3.5	✓	563a	Rutherford Hayes	11c (oct 1922) definitive, light bluish green
4.1	✓	564	Grover Cleveland	12c (mar 1923) definitive, brown violet
4.2	✓	622	Benjamin Harrison	13c (jan 1926) definitive, green
4.3	✓	565	American Indian	14c (may 1923) definitive, blue
4.4	✓	566	Statue of Liberty	15c (nov 1922) definitive, grey
5.1	✓	623	Woodrow Wilson	17c (dec 1925) definitive, black
5.2	✓	567	Golden Gate	20c (may 1923) definitive, carmine rose
5.3	✓	568	Niagara Falls	25c (nov 1922) definitive, yellow green
5.4	✓	569	American Bison	30c (mar 1923) definitive, olive brown
6.1	✓	570	Arlington Amphitheater	50c (nov 1922) definitive, lilac
6.2	✓	571	Lincoln Memorial	$1 (feb 1923) definitive, violet black
6.3	✓	572	U.S. Capitol	2$ (mar 1923) definitive, dark blue
6.4	✓	573	Statue of Freedom	5$ (mar 1923) definitive, blue & carmine

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.