Curt Fields will present a program on May 16 about Grant’s two terms as president. Grant was Rutherford B. Hayes’ ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the United States ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... But his two terms as president are best remembered for financial scandals among members of his party and his administration. In 1877, after he left office ...

President Ulysses S. Grant was especially known to have several unusual and unique preferences, including eating pickles and coffee for breakfast and drinking a specific brand of bourbon by the ...

A strange notice appeared in the March 27, 1867, issue of the Pulaski Citizen newspaper, which usually carried mostly brief news items and short advertisements for attorneys, carpenters, and goods ...

President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding on his horse-drawn carriage in Washington, DC. This was not an impeachable offense, but Grant still faced consequences. Grant, the general who ...

The Society of Presidential Descendants wants to remind Americans of their duty. The idea of Carter, Truman, Eisenhower, McKinley, Roosevelt and Grant taking a vacation together in Florida might ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.

Until Franklin Roosevelt, no president had served more than two elected terms in office. It was a tradition established by ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...