Presidents of the United States of America
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18 - Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Statistics:
Birth Date: April 27, 1822
Birthplace: Two-room cabin, Point Pleasant, Ohio
Father: Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873)
Mother: Hannah Simpson (1798-1883)
Height at Prime: 5 feet 7 inches
Physical Description: Muscular build, blue eyes, wavy brown hair, delicate hands, full beard and mustache
Religion: Methodist
Wife: Julia Boggs Dent (January 26, 1826 – December 14, 1902)
Marriage Date: August 22, 1848
Marriage Place: White Haven (bride’s father’s plantation), St. Louis, Missouri
Children:
-- Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 11, 1912)
-- Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr. (July 22, 1852 – September 25, 1929)
-- Ellen Wrenshall Grant Sartoris Jones (July 4, 1855 – August 30, 1922)
-- Jesse Root Grant (February 6, 1858 – June 8, 1934)
Death Date: July 23, 1885
Place of Death: Mount McGregor, near Sarasota Springs, New York
Cause of Death: Carcinoma (cancer) of the tongue and throat
Final Words: “Waterâ€
Burial Place: General Grant National Memorial, New York City, New York
Professional Statistics:
Professional soldier in the U.S. Army
Served in the Mexican War (1846-1848)
Union General in the Civil War (1861-1865)
18th President of the United States (1869-1877)
Political Party: Republican
His Vice Presidents:
-- Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)
-- Henry Wilson (1873-1875)
Events During Presidency:
Major Scandals
Fifteenth Amendment Ratified (1870)
Treaty of Washington (1871)
Reconstruction of the South
Panic of 1873
Resumption of Specie Act (1875)
Colorado admitted to the Union (1876)
