The Compromise of 1877 resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876. In the election, Democratic nominee Samuel J. Tilden won more popular votes than Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. However, the electoral votes from three southern states were uncertain. After months of tension, a 15 member Electoral Commission was formed and a compromise was arranged. As stated in Out of Many: A History of the American People, “In return for Haye’s receiving the presidency, “the Republicans promised to… pursue a policy of noninterference (“home rule”) in southern affairs” (Faragher, 436). This resulted in the removal of federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina, diminishing Republican governors control and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments