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Ulysses S. Grant




Ulysses Simpson Grant                     Ulysses S. Grant
(April 27, 1822 - July
23, 1885) was an
American Civil War
General and the 18th     Order:           18th President
(1869-1877) President of Term of Office:  March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877
the United States.       Followed:        Andrew Johnson
Grant (born Hiram        Succeeded by:    Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses Grant) was born  Date of Birth    April 27, 1822
in Point Pleasant, Ohio, Place of Birth:  Point Pleasant, Ohio
Clermont County, Ohio
(25 miles above          Date of Death:   July 23, 1885
Cincinnati on the Ohio   Place of Death:  Mount McGregor, New York
River) to Jesse R. and
Hannah Simpson Grant.    First Lady:      Julia Boggs Dent
His father and also his  Occupation:      soldier
mother's father were     Political Party: Republican
born in Pennsylvania.
His father was a tanner. Vice President:     * Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)
In the fall of 1823 they                     * Henry Wilson (1873-1875)
moved to the village of
Georgetown in Brown
County, Ohio, where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.

At the age of 17, he received a cadetship to the United States Military
Academy at West Point, New York through his Congressman. The Congressman
erroneously registered him as Ulysses S. Grant, and as such he is thus
known. He graduated from West Point in 1843, No. 21 in a class of 39.

He married Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902) on August 22, 1843 and they had four
children: Frederick Dent, Ulysses Simpson, Jr., Ellen Wrenshall, and Jesse
Root.

After service in the Mexican-American War he was promoted to Captain in
1853. The following summer, on July 31, 1854, he resigned from the army.
Seven years of civilian life following, in which he was a farmer, a real
estate agent in St. Louis, and finally an assistant at his father and
brother's leather business.

On April 24, 1861, ten days after the fall of Fort Sumter, Captain Grant
arrived in Springfield, Illinois with a company of men he had raised. The
Governor however felt that a West Point man could be put to better use and
appointed him Colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry (effective June
17, 1861). On August 7th he was appointed a Brigadier-General of volunteers.

Grant gave the Union its first victory of the war by capturing Fort Henry,
Tennessee on February 6, 1862.

Following the Battle of Chattanooga, he was appointed Lieutenant-General on
March 2, 1864, and on the 17th he assumed command of all of the armies of
the United States.

After the war the United States Congress appointed him to the newly-created
rank of General of the Army on July 25, 1866.

Grant was chosen as the Republican presidential candidate at the Republican
National Convention in Chicago on May 20 1868 with no real opposition. On
election day he won with a majority of 309,684 out of a total of 5,716,082
votes cast.

He was the 18th (1869-1877) President of the United States and served two
terms from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877. After the end of his second term
Grant spent two years travelling around the world.

Grant wrote his memoirs shortly before his death, whilst terminally ill from
throat cancer and in financial difficulties after the collapse of the firm
Grant and Ward. He heroically fought to finish his memoirs in the hope they
would provide financially for his family after his death. He finished them
just a few days before his death, and they succeeded in providing a
comfortable income for his wife and children. He died on July 23, 1885 at
Mount McGregor, Saratoga County, New York. His body lies in New York City,
with that of his wife, in Grant's Tomb, the largest mausoleum in North America.

Grant's portrait appears on the U.S. $50 bill.

His professed religion was Methodist.

Military Career

   * Mexican-American War
   * American Civil War
        o Fort Henry and Fort Donelson (Unconditional Surrender!)
        o Battle of Shiloh
        o Vicksburg, Mississippi
        o Chattanooga, Tennessee and the Battle of Chattanooga
        o Battle of the Wilderness
        o Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
        o Battle of Cold Harbor
        o siege of Richmond, Virginia
        o Appomattox Court House

Nicknames

   * The Hero of Appomattox
   * "Unconditional Surrender" Grant
   * Sam Grant
   * Ulys (in youth)
   * "Useless" (in youth)

Quotes

   * "The will of the people is the best law."
   * "Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of
     fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of
     peace."
   * "My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent."

Supreme Court appointments

   * William Strong - 1870
   * Joseph P. Bradley - 1870
   * Ward Hunt - 1873
   * Morrison Remick Waite - Chief Justice - 1874

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