- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHiram Ulysses Grant
- Nicknames
- U.S. Grant
- Unconditional Surrender Grant
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Ulysses S. Grant was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War. Later, as president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- His childhood and youth were characterized by poor conditions and working on his father's farm. In 1839, at the age of 17, he became a cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, New York. In 1843 Grant joined the infantry and three years later served in the war against Mexico, from which he emerged as a captain. In 1848 Grant married Julia Dent. Together they became parents of five children. After he left the army in 1854 because of alcohol problems, Grant lived with his family in St. Louis, where he kept himself afloat with various jobs. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, the governor of Illinois appointed him colonel in 1861. As a result, Grant proved himself as general of the Union troops in the Mississippi region and, since 1864, as their commander in chief, with spectacular victories in Virginia. He fought successfully for the North in the Civil War and forced the army of the Southern Confederacy to surrender in 1865.
His military fame also brought him political office in the subsequent Reconstruction era. From 1867 to 1868, Grant served as Secretary of War. In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant was elected as the 18th President of the United States as the Republican Party candidate. As a hero of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant ascended to the highest political office in the United States in March 1869. One of his greatest achievements is his commitment to nature conservation. In order to protect the North American Yellostone area from settlement, trappers and gold prospecting in the future, he passed a national protection law on March 1, 1872, which resulted in the establishment of the Yellostone National Park, the first national park in the world. That same year, 1872, Grant won re-election as president. His second term in office was marred by increasing corruption cases and an economic crisis. After Ulysses S. Grant left the presidential office in 1877, he tried unsuccessfully to run again for this position in 1880.
Following this failure, he withdrew into private life and suffered severe financial damage from unfortunate investments. Already affected by cancer, he wrote down his autobiography, which tells of his military life under the title "Personal memoirs" and was published in 1885/86.
Ulysses Simpson Grant died on July 23, 1885 in Mount McGregor, New York.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
- SpouseJulia Grant(August 22, 1848 - July 23, 1885) (his death, 4 children)
- His beard
- Portrayed by Jared Harris in Lincoln (2012).
- Created Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the first national park in American history.
- Has been praised for his record on civil rights for African-Americans, with many seeing him as being far ahead of his time on the issue.
- Was known as an animal lover. He never went hunting, once left a bullfight in Mexico in disgust, thought horse racing was abusive to the horses, and as a general responded to a drover beating a pair of horses by having the man arrested and tied to a tree for six hours.
- 18th President of the US (3/4/1869-3/4/1877).
- If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
- I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
- If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
- Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
- Let us have peace.
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