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The family of former President Ulysses S. Grant. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. G. Ulysses S. Grant (6 C, 40 P, 2 F)
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War .
Growing up in a middle-class family and supported by his father's tanneries, he sought a different career in the military. He was appointed to West Point by Ohio Congressman Thomas L. Hamer. It was Hamer who gave Grant the name Ulysses S. Grant when Grant entered West Point as a plebe in 1839.
Family of Ulysses S. Grant: March 4, 1869 — March 4, 1877 Ulysses and Julia Grant Jesse, Ulysses Jr., Nellie, and Frederick: The Grant family was the last slave-holding family to live in the White House. Grant owned a slave during the Civil War but freed the slave soon after. 19 Family of Rutherford B. Hayes: March 4, 1877 — March 4, 1881
Ellen Wrenshall Grant (July 4, 1855 – August 30, 1922) was the third child and only daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. At the age of 16, Nellie was sent abroad to England by President Grant, and was received by Queen Victoria. As a teenager growing up in the White House, she attracted much attention.
Jesse Grant's greater family was large, residing in both Ohio and in the slave state of Kentucky. [19] In 1820, he found work for a brief period at a tannery in Bethel, Ohio . Later that year, as an experienced tanner, he moved to Point Pleasant on the Ohio River and gained the position of foreman in a new tannery owned by Thomas Page. [ 20 ]
Julia Boggs Grant (née Dent; January 26, 1826 – December 14, 1902) was the first lady of the United States and wife of President Ulysses S. Grant. As first lady, she became the first woman in the position to write a memoir. [1] Her memoirs, The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, were published in 1975.