Who was the President of the United States in 1878?

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the President of the United States in 1879. Rutherford B. Hayes (born October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio; died January 17, 1893 in Fremont, Ohio) succeeded Ulysses S. Grant as the nineteenth President of the United States, serving between March 4, 1877 and March 4, 1881, including the whole of the year 1879.