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Ulysses
Grant- 18th President
Party: Republican
Term: March 4, 1869 - March 3, 1877
Age at Inauguration: 46
Life Span: April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885 [63]
Spouse: Julia Dent - Age at Marriage:
26
Vice President: Schuyler Colfax -
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- Born Hiram Ulysses Grant, his name
was mistakenly changed to Ulysses Simpson Grant on his entrance
application to West Point
- He liked the idea of the initials
U. S. Grant and never corrected the error
- Grant smoked an average of twenty
cigars a day, and after winning the presidency he received over
10,000 stogies as gifts
- He tried to sample one from each batch
and gave the remainder to friends Presidential
Smokers
- As president he was given a ticket
for horse speaeding on Pennsylvania Avenue
- With little political experience,
and elected mainly on his military credentials, he left most
of the day to day workings of the government to his cabinet;
a collection of friends and party officials who managed to perpetrate
fraud and corruption at every level
- Grant never profited from the corruption
and left office virtually penniless
- After his presidency he penned his
memoirs, the first of any president, and netted $50,000 for his
manuscript
- He never saw his work published as
he died four days after completing the last draft
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