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Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed as well as those who favor them.
—First Inaugural Address.
Ulysses S.
Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
 
(Grant, Ulysses Simpson) 1822–85, commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War and 18th President (1869–77) of the United States, b. Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  grnt from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. 1885–86.
Among the greatest of military memoirs, Grant wrote to the last month of life to restore his family fortunes.
 
First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1869.
Second Inaugural Address. March 4, 1873.
 
 
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Ulysses S. Grant. 1822–1885.
 
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