Located in Grant Park, Spokane, WA. The park is closed from 11:00
p.m. to 4:00 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time, or 10:00 p.m. to 5:00
a.m., Pacific Standard Time.
Born May 23, 1893 Ulysses S. Grant IV was the son of
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and the grandson of President Ulysses S.
Grant.
Grant studied geology at Harvard University, graduating cum laude
in 1915. Following graduation he mined for gold in Mexico.
During World War I, Grant enlisted in the United States Army as a
private. By the ned of the war, he was a second lieutenant. From
1919 to 1925 he was connected with the New York Stock Exchange. In
1927 he entered the graduate program in paleontoloty at Stanford
University. He received his doctorate in 1929.
Grant then worked at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County as the curator of invertebrate paleontology. He then taught
paleontology at the University of California beginning in 1931. He
rose from instructor to chairman of the geology department, a post
he held for eight years. He retired in 1959. He wrote several
papers.
In 1950 he married Frances Dean and had one son. This was his
second marriage, the first ending in divorce.
In 1953, Grant IV appeared on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your
Life, where the consolation question usually was "Who is buried
in Grant's tomb?".
Grant died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California from
lung failure caused by leukemia. Grant is buried at Greenwood
Cemetery in San Diego alongside his father.