Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before his presidency, Grant led the Union Army as Commanding General of the U.S. Army in winning the American Civil War. As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan.

About Ulysses S. Grant in brief

Summary Ulysses S. GrantUlysses S. Grant served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before his presidency, Grant led the Union Army as Commanding General of the U.S. Army in winning the American Civil War. As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. In his retirement, Grant was the first president to circumnavigate the world on his tour, meeting with many foreign leaders. In the final year of his life, facing severe financial reversals and dying of throat cancer, he wrote his memoirs, which proved to be a major critical and financial success. At the time of his death, he was memorialized as a symbol of national unity. He was ranked 38th in 1994 and 1996, but ranked 21st in 2018. His ancestors fought in the French Indian War, and his grandfather served in the American Revolution at Bunker Hill, Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather, Noah Grant, was a Presbyterian immigrant from Tyrone, Ireland, who was a fervent Whig Party supporter and fervent abolitionist. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, to Jesse Root Grant, a tanner and merchant, and Hannah Grant. He married Hannah on June 24, 1821, and the couple had two children, Noah, Noah and Rachel Kelley.

Grant died in 1877 at the age of 87. He is buried in Mount Vernon, New Jersey, with his wife, Hannah Grant, and their four children. The Grant family is still active in politics and philanthropic causes, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Park Service, the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA. For more information, visit: http://www.gofundme.com/ulysses-s-grant-1869-1877-nephew-hannah-and-grandson-noah-gervais-kelley-killey-gravy-killely-kilely-gavily-gave-the-world-a-new-nations-park-to-children-in-1872-1873. For confidential support call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch, see www.samaritans.org for details. For support on suicide matters call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. For help in the UK, call the Salvation Army at 08457 909090. For information on the University of London, visit http:// www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/. For confidential help on suicide prevention in the United Kingdom, call 08457 709090 or visit the Samaritan’s Samaritans’ Samaritans page on the Internet. for details on how to get help, visit www. Samaritans.com.