Ulysses S. Grant

Biography of Vice President Henry Wilson (1873-1875)

Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

—Senator George Boutwell    » read more »

Biography of Vice President Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)

Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

The Vice Presidency is an elegant office whose occupant must find it his principal business to try to discover what is the use of there being such an office at all.

—Indianapolis Journal, March 7, 1871    » read more »

Ulysses S. Grant (1869 - 1877)

Late in the administration of Andrew Johnson, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant quarreled with the President and aligned himself with the Radical Republicans. He was, as the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War, their logical candidate for President in 1868.    » read more »

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1873

Fellow-Citizens:

Under Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great nation. It has been my endeavor in the past to maintain all the laws, and, so far as lay in my power, to act for the best interests of the whole people. My best efforts will be given in the same direction in the future, aided, I trust, by my four years' experience in the office.    » read more »

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1869

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