Ulysses S. Grant
1822 – 1885 American 18th President of the United States
Union commanding general and eighteenth U.S. president.
- Religion
- Methodist
- Affiliations
- Republican Party; not a Freemason.
Grant led Union armies to victory in the Civil War before serving two terms as president. He enforced Reconstruction, backed the Fifteenth Amendment, and used the Ku Klux Klan Act to suppress white terror in the South. His administration was marred by corruption scandals.
In the timeline
- 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse mentioned