The disputed election resulted in an unprecedented Constitutional crisis. On January 29, 1877, the US Congress passed a law forming a 15 member Electoral Commission to settle the result. Five members came from each House of Congress and were joined by five members of the Supreme Court. The Commission met on the last day of January and adjourned on March 2; two days later Hayes was inaugurated without disturbance. This 3x4.75" ticket is dated for February 13, 1877 with serial number 766 and text "Counting The Vote For President And Vice President/Admit Bearer/To Gallery Of House Of Representatives." Below is serial number/date/and two facsimile signatures of T. W Ferry and L. J. Randall. It is not possible to conclude definitively what the result would have been if a fair election had been held without the violence and intimidation, throughout the south, that disenfranchised many African Americans explicitly eligible to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment. Nevertheless, in the likeliest fair scenario Hayes would have won the election with 189 electoral votes to Tilden's 180 by winning all of the states that he did ultimately carry, plus Mississippi but minus Florida. A strong case can be made that South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi, states with an outright majority African American population, would have gone for Hayes since nearly all African Americans during this time voted Republican (while nearly all whites in the south during this time voted Democratic). Florida, with a majority white population, would have likely gone to Tilden in a fair election. Clearly Hayes would have won appreciably more of the popular vote in a fair election, although arguably still not a plurality or majority. Minor dustiness, more on back than front. No creases. Corner tip wear. VF.