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What was the name of the bipartisan commission appointed by Congress to settle the 1876 election controversy?

  • Electoral Commission

  • Election Committee

  • Presidential Commission

  • Voting Commission

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To settle the 1876 election controversy, Congress appointed the bipartisan Electoral Commission. Republicans had a one-seat advantage on the commission, and they decided in a series of party-line rulings that Hayes had won all of the disputed electoral votes.
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