Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Butcher, Grant's unmatched persistence led him to win several key victories for the Union forces earning him this nickname. [79] [80] The Great Hammerer [81] Little Beauty, a nickname mocking his good looks. [82] Ulyss, childhood nickname [34] U.S. Grant. Uncle Sam Grant, a name given to him by his classmates at West Point. [83]
Grant's father Jesse Root Grant was a Whig Party supporter and a fervent abolitionist. [3] Jesse and Hannah Simpson were married on June 24, 1821, and their first child, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born on April 27, 1822. [4] The name Ulysses was drawn from ballots placed in a hat.
On the onset of the American Civil War in April 1861, Ulysses S. Grant was working as a clerk in his father's leather goods store in Galena, Illinois.When the war began, his military experience was needed, and congressman Elihu B. Washburne became his patron in political affairs and promotions in Illinois and nationwide.
George Copeland Grant or Jackie Grant (1907–1978), Trinidadian cricketer and teacher; George F. Grant (1906–2008), American fisherman, author, conservationist; George Leslie Grant or Bunny Grant (1940–2018), Jamaican boxer; George Washington Grant (fl. 1919–1922), American businessman and owner of the Boston Braves of the National League
When Congress would not amend the law, at Grant's bidding, an embarrassed Grant appointed Massachusetts Congressman George S. Boutwell, to replace Stewart. [ 14 ] [ b ] For Secretary of War, Grant appointed his former Army chief of staff John A. Rawlins , however, Rawlins died of tuberculosis in September 1869.
During his time in the White House, President George W. Bush was known for his love of giving other people nicknames — "Pootie Poot" (Russian President Vladimir Putin), "Bushie," (First Lady ...
He was the only royal great-grandchild that got to use it.
It was Hamer who gave Grant the name Ulysses S. Grant when Grant entered West Point as a plebe in 1839. After four years at West Point, he was stationed in Missouri, where he met his future wife, Julia Dent. In 1846, Grant served in the Mexican–American War, where he was brevetted for bravery.