| Born | April 27, 1822 |
| Birth Place | Point Pleasant, Ohio |
| Birth name | Hiram Ulysses Grant |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Dent Grant |
| Occupation | General-in-Chief |
| Religion | Methodist |
| Died | July 23, 1885 |
| Death Place | Mount McGregor, New York |
Ulysses S. Grant was served as the 18th President of the United States. He is a military commander through the Civil War and post war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army overcome the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America. Fighting in the Mexican American War, he was a close viewer of the techniques of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. He became the first president to provide two full terms since Andrew Jackson did so forty years earlier. He led renovation by signing and enforcing civil rights laws and fighting Ku Klux Klan violence. He absent office at the low point of his popularity. In 1880 he made an ineffective bid for a third presidential term. In 1884, broke and dying of cancer, he wrote his extremely successful memoirs.
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