He was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He was the first son of Jesse Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant. Shortly after he was born, his family moved and there he lived an uneventful childhood. Grant wasn’t an outgoing child. His disliked the idea of working in his fathers tannery business, and his father knew this. Jesse arranged for him to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point. On the paperwork to enter the school, he had been listed as Ulysses S. Grant, and he didn’t want to be rejected, so that’s what he changed his name to. Ulysses didn’t do great at West Point, he received average grades and often got in trouble for being sloppily dressed or tardy. He graduated in 1843…show more content… Louis, Missouri. He served as quartermaster during the Mexican-American War. He married Julia Dent in 1848, and together they had 4 children. During this period of six years he was stationed all over the country. While he was stationed in California, he began to miss him wife and kids. He got involved in numerous business ventures in trying to get his family closer to him. After all the failures, he began to drink and formed a reputation that would follow him throughout his military career. On July 31st, 1854, he resigned from the Army because of accusations of heavy drinking and warnings of disciplinary action. He stayed out of armed forces for almost seven years after…show more content… In 1868 he was elected the 18th President of the United States. When he entered office, he was politically inexperienced and was the youngest president of the time. One of the things eh accomplished while in office was pushing through the ratification of the 15th Amendment and he also established the National Park Service. He served two terms, but didn’t get a chance to serve a third,
After he left the white house, he became a partner in a financial firm. The firm went bankrupt and so did he. In 1884 he was diagnose with throat cancer. Grant began to sell magazine articles about his life, that Mark Twain eventually published selling 300,000 copies and earning the Grant family roughly $450,000. Ulysses S. Grant died on July 23, 1885 in Mount McGregor, New York and he is buried in New York City.
I believe Ulysses S. Grant was a very successful man. Not every thing he did was successful, but many things were. If he hadn’t accomplished what he did in the Civil War, it might have ended differently. Many others thought he was successful or at least respected him, or else he wouldn’t have been elected president of the U.S. He was a very important person in history that is over looked for what he has
