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The president's election that marked the end of Reconstruction was Rutherford Hayes. It was during the Presidential Election of 1876.
There was a debate as to who had won the election as the votes were very close. A deal was made between the two candidates behind doors where Tilden agreed to give up the election if Hayes ended reconstruction.
the 1866 elections were mostly about who should control the reconstruction Rutherford b. Hayes won the popular vote and removed federal troops from the south this deal singled the end of the reconstruction This answer describes the Presidential election of 1876. The 1866 election was the Congressional mid-term election of the Andrew Johnson administration.
By most accounts, the official end of Reconstruction in the American South (after the Civil War's conclusion in 1865) arrived in 1877. The occasion was provided by the disputed election of Rutherford B. Hayes as the 19th President of the United States: Hayes secured the presidency through an arrangement with Southern congressional leaders, offering to remove Federal military control throughout the South if these leaders would assent to his election.
President Hayes kept removes troops from the South. The order was given on May 1st, 1877. The decision to end Reconstruction and return the rule to Southerners, soon resulted in the disenfranchisement of the Blacks in the South.