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1. ULYSSES S GRANT
By Brianna Shipman

2. Who Was Ulysses Grant
◦ He was a general for the US army during the American civil war
◦ He was the commanding general at the end of the war
◦ He was also elected the 18th president of the United States of America
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3. His early life
◦ He was born on April 27th 1822 in Point Pleasant Ohio
◦ Growing up he was really shy, he was the quiet kid and didn’t really have any interest in many
things
◦ His dad wanted him to take over his fathers business but Ulysses had no interest and his dad
understood that
◦ When he turned 17 his dad had arranged for him to join the US Army
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4. More about him
◦ He attended and graduated west point in 1842
◦ He married Julia dent, and they married in 1848
◦ They married after Ulysses got out of the Mexican American war.
◦ After they got married they had 4 kids together
◦ The kids names were Fredrick, Ulysses Jr., Nellie, and Jesse.
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5. What wars was Ulysses in
◦ Mexican-American war
◦ During the Mexican American war Ulysses was a junior officer with the 4th United States Infantry in
Missouri.
◦ He fought the Mexican-American war
◦ American civil war
◦ “In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy
in the American Civil War.”
◦ He also had help from Abraham Lincoln
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6. His status in the Army
◦ He was the 6th commanding general of the united states
◦ He was in office from March 9th 1864 to March 4th 1869.
◦ He was also a junior officer with the 4th united states infantry in Missouri
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7. Becoming President
◦ He became president March 4th 1869
◦ He was the youngest president
◦ When he was elected president he was 46 years old
◦ “ Though Grant was highly scrupulous, his administration was tainted with scandal.”
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8. Ulysses as president
◦ He was elected for 2 terms
◦ He had 2 different vice presidents
◦ His first vice president was Schuyler Colfax
◦ His second vice president was Henry Wilson
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9. Citations
◦ Biography. www.google.com/amp/s/www.biography.com/.amp/people/ ulysses-s-grant-
9318285. Accessed 8 Nov. 2017.
◦ PBS. www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/biographies/ulysses_grant.html. Accessed 8 Nov.
2017.
◦ The White House. www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/ulyssessgrant. Accessed 6 Nov.
2017.
◦ wikipedia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant. Accessed 8 Nov. 2017.