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En route to Washington D.C. to plea President Grant to honor the Fort Laramie Treaty and keep the Black Hills. Interpreter: (Top L) Julius Meyer Frank F. Courier May 1875. President Ulysses S. Grant sympathized with the plight of Native Americans and believed that the original occupants of the land were worthy of study.
At the 1868 Republican National Convention, the delegates unanimously nominated Grant for president on the first ballot and Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax for vice president on the fifth. [261] Although Grant had preferred to remain in the army, he accepted the Republican nomination, believing that he was the only one who could unify the ...
In total Grant appointed 46 Article III federal judges, making him the first president to appoint more federal judges than George Washington. Grant's appointments included 4 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States , 10 judges to the United States circuit courts , and 32 judges to the United States district courts .
An Indiana-based philanthropic endowment will give $100 million to the official nonprofit of the National Park Service (NPS), the largest gift the organization has ever received. The National Park ...
The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the ...
The total area protected by national parks is approximately 52.4 million acres (212,000 km 2), for an average of 833 thousand acres (3,370 km 2) but a median of only 220 thousand acres (890 km 2). [8] The national parks set a visitation record in 2021, with more than 92 million visitors. [9]
Calling the gift “transformative,” the National Park Foundation said the $100 million grant is the largest donation the foundation has ever received.
Grant visited the General Grant Grove and the General Grant tree, a Giant Sequoia. By 1923, Grant went to Washington, D.C., and was the executive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission and a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. In 1925, he was director of the newly created Office of Public Buildings and ...