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Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War general, U.S. president ( to )
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see General Grant (disambiguation), President Grant (disambiguation), and Ulysses S. Grant (disambiguation).
Ulysses S. Grant | |
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Grant c.– | |
In office March 4, – March 4, | |
Vice President | |
Preceded by | Andrew Johnson |
Succeeded by | Rutherford B. Hayes |
In office March 9, – March 4, | |
President | |
Preceded by | Henry Halleck |
Succeeded by | William Tecumseh Sherman |
In office August 12, – January 14, | |
President | Andrew Johnson |
Preceded by | Edwin Stanton |
Succeeded by | Edwin Stanton |
In office – | |
Preceded by | E. L. Molineux |
Succeeded by | Philip Sheridan |
Born | Hiram Ulysses Grant ()April 27, Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | July 23, () (aged63) Wilton, New York, U.S. |
Resting place | Grant's Tomb, New York City |
Political party | Republican |
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Education | United States Military Academy |
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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant;[a] Apr
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant’s ancestors first came to America in , Englishman Mathew Grant landing in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Grant was always extremely proud of his forebears, but the most important individuals in his lineage were his mother and father.
His father Jesse spent part of his early years living in the home of the father of the famous abolitionist, John Brown. His quiet mother Hannah Simpson Grant came from Pennsylvania parents who were die-hard Jacksonian Democrats. The two married in June of , and their first born, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born on April 27, It was only later when the congressman who nominated him for West Point erroneously recorded him as Ulysses S. Grant that he was able to shed the embarrassment of his true initials: H.U.G.
Grant’s father sent him to the United States Military Academy where he graduated 21st out of a class of 39, excelling in mathematics. The last year at West Point he roomed with Frederick Dent the son of a slave-holding family from St. Louis, Missouri. Grant, whose family was opposed to slavery, regularly rode to the Dent plantation and there he met Julia Dent. They agreed to marry in May of , but the Mexican-American War intervened, and the marriage did not happen until August 22,
The marriage resulted in fo