Ho Became President in 1868 and Again in 1872 Presidential Election of 1872
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Ulysses Due south. Grant (b. Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio) was the 18th president of the U.s.a.. He served from 1869 to 1877 and died at age 63 on July 23, 1885.
Grant was a fellow member of the Republican Party. His vice presidents were Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873) and Henry Wilson (1873-1877).
Grant was president during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil State of war.
Prior to his presidency, Grant served in the Civil State of war every bit colonel and brigadier general of the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, major general of volunteers, lieutenant general of Union armies, and full general-in-primary of the United States Ground forces. He led the Union to ultimately defeat the Confederate States Army in 1865.[1]
Biography
Timeline of life events
Beneath is an abbreviated outline of Grant'southward professional person and political career:[1] [2] [3]
- 1822: Born in Indicate Pleasant, Ohio
- 1843: Graduated from United States Military machine Academy, West Point; assigned to the Fourth Infantry of the U.S. Army
- 1846-1848: Served in the Mexican-American War
- 1861-1865: Served in the American Ceremonious War
- 1865: Confederate General Robert Eastward. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courtroom House
- 1866: Appointed general-in-chief of the Us Regular army
- 1868: Elected president of the United States, defeating Democrat Horatio Seymour
- 1869: Grant'south brother-in-law Abel Corbin implicated in Blackness Fri fiscal panic
- 1870: Signed the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- 1872: Signed legislation to establish Yellowstone as the country's first national park
- 1872: Re-elected as president of the The states
- 1875: Signed the Ceremonious Rights Act of 1875
- 1875: Grant's secretary Orville Babcock indicted in Whiskey Band scandal
- 1880: Lost Republican presidential candidate nomination to James Garfield
- 1885: Died of pharynx cancer in Mount McGregor, New York
Before the presidency
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant in Bespeak Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822. He grew upward in Georgetown, Ohio, where his father ran a tannery. In 1839, Grant entered the Us Military Academy in West Bespeak, New York. An error was made during the admissions procedure in which Grant's proper name was incorrectly rendered as Ulysses S. Grant, a rendering which Grant accustomed equally his legal proper noun. Following graduation in 1843, Grant was assigned to the Fourth Infantry of the U.s. Army, stationed in St. Louis, Missouri. He served in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848, then returned to St. Louis to ally Julia Boggs Paring.[1] [ii] [3]
Grant resigned from the army in 1854 only returned at the start of the American Ceremonious State of war in 1861. He served in the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to serve as lieutenant full general of the Matrimony armies in 1864. He and so served as the general-in-chief of the United States Ground forces from 1864 to 1869.[1] [2] [three] Grant led the Union to defeat the Confederate States Army through an aggressive military strategy, resulting in the stop of the Civil War and the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courtroom House on April 9, 1865.[4]
On May 24, 1868, the Republican Party nominated Grant as the political party'southward presidential candidate, and he ran with the slogan "Let Usa Have Peace." He defeated Democratic candidate Horatio Seymour in the presidential election on November iii, 1868, receiving 214 balloter votes to Seymour's 80.[two] [v]
Presidency
Grant served as president during the Reconstruction period post-obit the Civil War. In his first term equally president, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Us Constitution was ratified, granting blackness males the right to vote. Grant too signed the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 and the Ku Klux Klan Human activity of 1871, which were designed to protect black citizens from the violation of their voting rights and associated violence.[six] Grant also signed legislation to establish the National Weather Service and Yellowstone National Park.[2]
On November 5, 1872, Grant won the popular vote in his second presidential election, defeating Democratic candidate Horace Greeley. Greeley died before the Balloter College cast its votes. Grant received 286 electoral votes, while the remaining votes went to iv Democratic candidates.[vii]
During his 2nd term as president, Grant signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, designed to provide all citizens with equal access to public accommodations. That yr, he too signed the Resumption Deed to return the country to the gold standard.[1]
The Grant presidency was also marked by a serial of government scandals and negative public reactions. Grant's brother-in-law was involved in the Black Friday financial crisis of 1869, during which speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk manipulated the New York Gold Exchange market. It was revealed in 1872 that government officials, including Vice President Schuyler Colfax, were implicated in the Crédit Mobilier Scandal that took place during the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. Grant'due south secretarial assistant, Orville Babcock, was indicted and after acquitted for interest in the Whiskey Ring scandal of 1876, in which whiskey distributors and distillers bribed government officials in order to evade liquor taxes. The public also responded negatively to government salary increment legislation in 1873. In improver to increasing the salaries of the president and Supreme Courtroom justices, the legislation included retroactive pay increases for Congress members that were later rescinded.[1] [ii] [3] [8]
Post-presidency
After the presidency, Grant and his married woman Julia spent two years traveling around the world before settling in New York Metropolis in 1880. In 1884, Grant was bankrupted afterward investing in Ferdinand Ward's Ponzi scheme. He and then focused on writing his memoirs while facing the diagnosis of throat cancer. Grant died in Mount McGregor, New York, in July 1885, but after finishing his memoirs.[1]
Personal
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In school, Grant was known as an average student and a skilled equestrian. He and his wife Julia had 4 children—Frederick, Ulysses Jr., Ellen, and Jesse. Grant's memoirs were published shortly after his death in 1885 by Mark Twain.[3]
The answer to the riddle "Who is buried in Grant'south tomb?" is "No ane"—Ulysses and Julia Grant were entombed in sarcophagi in the New York Metropolis tomb.[nine]
Elections
Grant defeated Seymour in the presidential election of 1868, receiving 214 electoral votes to Seymour'due south fourscore.
| U.South. presidential election, 1868 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Electoral votes | |
| Republican |  Ulysses Southward. Grant/Schuyler Colfax | 52.seven% | 3,013,790 | 214 | |
| Democratic | Horatio Seymour/Francis Blair Jr. | 47.3% | 2,708,980 | lxxx | |
| Total Votes | 5,722,770 | 294 | |||
| Election results via: 1868 official election results | |||||
Grant defeated Greeley in the presidential ballot of 1872, receiving 286 balloter votes. Greeley died earlier the electoral votes were cast, and his electoral votes were distributed among 4 other Democratic candidates.
| U.S. presidential election, 1872 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Ulysses S. Grant/Henry Wilson Incumbent | 55.9% | three,597,132 | 286 | |
| Autonomous | Horace Greeley/B. Gratz Brown | 44.ane% | ii,834,125 | 0 | |
| Total Votes | vi,431,257 | 286 | |||
| Election results via: 1868 official ballot results | |||||
State of the Marriage addresses
Every yr in role, the president of the United States addresses Congress on the present state of affairs also as the administration'southward goals for the coming yr.[10] Following are transcripts from Grant's State of the Matrimony addresses:
- December 6, 1869
- December 5, 1870
- Dec 4, 1871
- Dec two, 1872
- Dec 1, 1873
- December 7, 1874
- Dec seven, 1875
- December five, 1876
See besides
Andrew Jackson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Federal judges nominated by Ulysses Grant
External links
- Official White House biography
- C-Bridge video on the Grant presidency
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 i.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Library of Congress, "Ulysses S. Grant Papers, Timeline," accessed May thirty, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.ii 2.3 2.4 ii.5 National Park Service, "Ulysses S. Grant Timeline," accessed May 30, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.three 3.4 History.com, "Ulysses Southward. Grant," accessed May 30, 2018
- ↑ Library of Congress, "The Ceremonious State of war in America," accessed June 18, 2018
- ↑ 270 To Win, "1868 Presidential Election," accessed May 31, 2018
- ↑ Senate.gov, "Landmark Legislation: The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871," accessed May 31, 2018
- ↑ 270 To Win, "1872 Presidential Election," accessed May 31, 2018
- ↑ History.com, "Crédit Mobilier," accessed May 31, 2018
- ↑ The Atlantic, "Goodbye to Grant," July 23, 2016
- ↑ Congressional Research Service, "The President'south State of the Union Address: Tradition, Function, and Policy Implications," Jan 24, 2014
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