Full Name: Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant)
Nicknames: Sam, Unconditional Surrender Grant
Born: April 27, 1822 - Point Pleasant, OH
Died: July 23, 1885 - Wilton, NY
West Point Class: 1843 (21st of 39)
US Army Service: 1839–1854 & 1861–1869
Major Battles & Campaigns: Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Overland Campaign, Petersburg, Appomattox
- Loved horses and wanted to be assigned to the cavalry, but was instead assigned to be a quartermaster.
- General-in-Chief of the US Army (1864-1869)
- Republican. 18th President of the United States (1869-1877). Nearly nominated for a third term in 1880.
- Immensely popular in his lifetime despite a presidency marred by corrupt subordinates and the Panic of 1873.
- Wrote his memoirs while dying of throat cancer.
- Buried in General Grant National Memorial, Upper Manhattan, New York (aka Grant's Tomb).