Ulysses S. Grant

BIRTH NAME
Hiram Ulysses Grant

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Presbyterian, Methodist

EDUCATION
West Point, 1843

VITALS
5 ft 8 in /156 lbs

CAREER
1843 Brevet second lieutenant, 4th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army
1846 Regimental quartermaster, Battle of Palo Alto, Mexican American War
1853 Promoted to captain, Company F, Fort Humboldt, California (Resigned, 1854)
1854-60 Farmer, St. Louis, Missouri
1861 Recommissioned, promoted to colonel, 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment; then brigadier general
1862 Promoted to major general
1864 Promoted to lieutenant general, commander of the Union Army
1866 Congressional appointment as General of the Army of the United States
1867 Interim U.S. Secretary of War (Johnson)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 3, 1868,
Popular: 3,013,650 (53%) Horatio Seymour 2,708,744 (47%)
Electoral: Grant 214 Seymour 80
November 5, 1872
Popular: Grant 3,598,235 (56%) Greeley 2,834,761 (44%);
Electoral: Grant 286 Thomas Hendricks 42 Benjamin Brown 18 Charles Jenkins 2 David Davis 1

VICE PRESIDENTS
Schuyler Colfax (1869-73)
Henry Wilson (1873-75)

ADMINISTRATION
15th Amendment (Right to vote), Department of Justice, Naturalization Act of 1870 (1870); Yellowstone National Park, Amnesty Act of 1872 (1872); Comstock Act, Panic of 1873 (1873); Civil Rights Act of 1875, Whiskey Ring corruption scandal (1875)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
William Strong, Joseph Bradley, Morrison Waite (Chief),

NEW STATE
Colorado (1876)

FIRST LADY
Julia Boggs Dent (1869-77)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1877-79 World tour
1885 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

“Although a soldier by education and profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war and I have never advocated it except as a means for peace.”
Speech in London, England, June 15, 1877

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by unknown, late 1800s.