This week's famous cousin is my 7th cousin 3x removed Hiram Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) the 18th President of the United States.
Here is Hiram Ulysses Grant's Family Search Family Tree short biography:
When President Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on 27 April 1822, in Point Pleasant, Monroe Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States, his father, Jesse Root Grant, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, was 23. He married Julia Boggs Dent on 22 August 1848, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1870 and Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1843. In 1869, his occupation is listed as 18th president of the united states. He died on 23 July 1885, in Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Riverside Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
The Wikipedia profile for Hiram Ulysses Grant includes this information:
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant (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 Point) in 1843. He served with distinction in the Mexican–American War, but resigned from the army in 1854 and returned to civilian life impoverished. In 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, Grant joined the Union Army and rose to prominence after securing victories in the western theater. In 1863, he led the Vicksburg campaign that gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and dealt a major strategic blow to the Confederacy. President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and command of all Union armies after his victory at Chattanooga. For thirteen months, Grant fought Robert E. Lee during the high-casualty Overland Campaign which ended with the capture of Lee's army at Appomattox, where he formally surrendered to Grant. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson promoted Grant to General of the Army. Later, Grant broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies. A war hero, drawn in by his sense of duty, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and then elected president in 1868.
As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, supported congressional Reconstruction and the Fifteenth Amendment, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. Under Grant, the Union was completely restored. An effective civil rights executive, Grant signed a bill to create the United States Department of Justice and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission, advancing the civil service more than any prior president. Grant was re-elected in the 1872 presidential election, but was inundated by executive scandals during his second term. His response to the Panic of 1873 was ineffective in halting the Long Depression, which contributed to the Democrats winning the House majority in 1874. Grant's Native American policy was to assimilate Indians into Anglo-American culture. In Grant's foreign policy, the Alabama Claims against Britain were peacefully resolved, but the Senate rejected Grant's annexation of Santo Domingo. In the disputed 1876 presidential election, Grant facilitated the approval by Congress of a peaceful compromise.
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Cool! Grant is my 7th cousin, 6x removed.
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