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Pages in category "Grant family" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Ulysses S. Grant Jr. Ulysses S. Grant III;
Grant's step-grandmother Sarah Simpson, an educated woman who read French classical literature, also favored the name Ulysses. [9] Finally, at a family gathering, the name Ulysses, was drawn from ballots placed in a hat. Jesse, wanting to honor his wife's father, declared the name for his son would thus be Hiram Ulysses, though he would always ...
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War .
On a new episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Sunday night, actor Bradley Whitford, who is best known for his Emmy award-winning performance in the political drama The West Wing, was surprised to ...
Ulysses S. Grant's standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new perspective on his time in the White ...
Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 12, 1912) [1] was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary. Grant was the first son of General and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant. He was named after his uncle, Frederick Tracy Dent.
In the United States, members of the Delano family include U.S. presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, and writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Its progenitor is Philippe de Lannoy (1602–1681), a Pilgrim of Walloon descent, who arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts , in the early 1620s.
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 31 volumes of selected correspondence John Younker Simon (June 25, 1933 – July 8, 2008) [ 1 ] was an American Civil War scholar known for editing the papers of Ulysses S. Grant .