欧博娱乐Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant is best known as the Union general who led the United States to victory over the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. As a two-term President, he is typically dismissed as weak and ineffective; historians have often ranked Grant's presidency near the bottom in American history. Recently, however, scholars have begun to reexamine and reassess his presidential tenure; recent rankings have reflected a significant rise.
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Ulysses S. Grant
April 27, 1822
July 23, 1885
Point Pleasant, Ohio
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York (graduated 1843)
Methodist
Soldier
Republican
“Hero of Appomattox”
August 22, 1848, to Julia Boggs Dent (1826–1902)
Frederick Dent (1850–1912), Ulysses Simpson (1852–1929), Ellen Wrenshall (1855–1922), Jesse Root (1858–1934)
March 4, 1869
March 5, 1877
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Grant’s Tomb, New York, New York