Ulysses Simpson Grant
18th President of the United States
(March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877)
Nickname: "Hero of Appomattox"
Born: April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio
Died: July 23, 1885, in Mount McGregor, New York
Father: Jesse Root Grant
Mother: Hannah Simpson Grant
Married: Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902), on August 22, 1848
Children: Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912); Ulysses Simpson Grant (1852-1929); Ellen Wrenshall Grant (1855-1922); Jesse Root Grant (1858-1934)
Religion: Methodist
Education: Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (1843)
Occupation: Soldier
Political Party: Republican
Other Government Positions:
- None
Presidential Salary: $25,000/year (increased to $50,000/year in 1873)
Vice Presidents: Schuyler Colfax (1869-73); Henry Wilson (1873-75)
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- Elihu B. Washburne (1869)
- Hamilton Fish (1869-77)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- George S. Boutwell (1869-73)
- William A. Richardson (1873-74)
- Benjamin H. Bristow (1874-76)
- Lot M. Morrill (1876-77)
- Secretary of War
- John A. Rawlins (1869)
- William T. Sherman (1869)
- William W. Belknap (1869-76)
- Alphonso Taft (1876)
- James D. Cameron (1876-77)
- Attorney General
- Ebenezer R. Hoar (1869-70)
- Amos T. Akerman (1870-71)
- George H. Williams (1871-75)
- Edwards Pierrepont (1875-76)
- Alphonso Taft (1876-77)
- Postmaster General
- John A. J. Creswell (1869-74)
- James W. Marshall (1874)
- Marshall Jewell (1874-76)
- James N. Tyner (1876-77)
- Secretary of the Navy
- Adolph E. Borie (1869)
- George M. Robeson (1869-77)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Jacob D. Cox, Jr. (1869-70)
- Columbus Delano (1870-75)
- Zachariah Chandler (1875-77)
- More facts about Grant can be found at Little Known Facts about Ulysses S. Grant by Diane Meives, co-founder of the U.S. Grant Network.
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