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Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1878 for Representatives to the 46th United States Congress. These elections occurred in the middle of President Rutherford B. Hayes’s term.With a sour economy as the nation’s pressing issue both major parties lost seats to the new Greenback Party which was established to promote the long-term use of paper money as a solution to stop enormous economic fluctuations.

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