Education:
Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy
in West Point, N.Y. (1843)
Occupation:
Soldier
Religion:
Methodist
Wife:
Julia
Boggs Dent (1826-1902), on August 22, 1848
Children:
Frederick Dent Grant
(1850-1912);
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1852-1929);
Ellen Wrenshall Grant
(1855-1922);
Jesse Root Grant (1858-1934)
Father:
Jesse Root Grant
Mother:
Hannah Simpson Grant
Years in
office:
(March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877)
Born:
April
27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio
Died:
July
23, 1885, in Mount McGregor, New York
Age at
death:
63
Elected
from:
Political
Party:
Republican
Other Government
Positions:
None
Presidential
Salary:
$25,000/year (increased to $50,000/year in 1873)
Vice
President:
Schuyler Colfax (1869-73);
Henry Wilson (1873-75)
Secretary of
State:
Elihu B. Washburne (1869)
Hamilton Fish (1869-77)
Secretary of the
Treasury:
George S. Boutwell (1869-73)
William A. Richardson
(1873-74)
Benjamin H. Bristow (1874-76)
Lot M. Morrill (1876-77)
Secretary of
War:
John A. Rawlins (1869)
William T. Sherman (1869)
William
W. Belknap (1869-76)
Alphonso Taft (1876)
James D. Cameron (1876-77)
Attorney
General:
Ebenezer R. Hoar (1869-70)
Amos T. Akerman (1870-71)
George H. Williams (1871-75)
Edwards Pierrepont (1875-76)
Alphonso Taft
(1876-77)
Secretary of the
Navy:
Adolph E. Borie (1869)
George M. Robeson (1869-77)
Postmaster
General:
John A. J. Creswell (1869-74)
James W. Marshall (1874)
Marshall Jewell (1874-76)
James N. Tyner (1876-77)
Secretary of the
Interior:
Jacob D. Cox, Jr. (1869-70)
Columbus Delano (1870-75)
Zachariah Chandler (1875-77)
Links /
Resources:
The White
House
PO Box 1427