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Ulysses S. Grant Jr. Nickname: Buck: July 22, 1852 – September 25, 1929 Frances Josephine "Fannie" Chaffee Father of 5: Miriam Grant (1881-1940) Chaffee Grant (1883-1940) Julia Dent Grant (1885-1964) Fannie Grant (1889-1924) Ulysses Simpson Grant IV (1893–1977) America Rosa Workman Will No children: Ellen Wrenshall Grant Nickname: Nellie
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. Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West
Grant's wife died in 1909 and four years later he married a widow, America Workman Will (1878–1942). Grant and his wife traveled extensively. In his later years, they stayed closer to home and traveled in California. Grant was a member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Franklin Delano Raines (born January 14, 1949), also known as Frank Raines, is an American business executive.He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton.
Fannie Mae created a liquid secondary mortgage market and thereby made it possible for banks and other loan originators to issue more housing loans, primarily by buying Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured mortgages. [11] For the first thirty years following its inception, Fannie Mae held a monopoly over the secondary mortgage market. [10]
Grant was a second-generation descendant of Polish and Russian Jews. [1] His father George (1885–1938) emigrated from Poland at age 5, with his parents Nathan Gumolinsky and Fannie (née Freund). Nathan adopted "Grant" as his surname after emigrating into the United States, supposedly because he had admired U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant. [2]
Ginnie Mae is similar to Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) with the difference being that Ginnie Mae is a wholly owned government corporation whereas Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "government-sponsored enterprises" (GSEs), which are federally chartered corporations ...
Fannie Farmer was born on 23 March 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to Mary Watson Merritt and John Franklin Farmer, an editor and printer. The family were Unitarians . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The oldest of four daughters in a family that highly valued education, she was expected to go to college, but suffered a paralytic stroke at the age of ...