4/5/2023 0 Comments Ulysses s.grant nickname![]() However, circumstances led to him serving in the Mexican-American War under General (and future president) Zachary Taylor. While at West Point, he avoided rising up to leadership (choosing to remain a private within the student body) and tried to leverage his education to pursue an academic career rather than a military one. note Not for surrendering himself, mind, but for making others surrender to him.īy his own admission, he was a modest man without great ambition. His nickname, earned during the Civil War, was "Unconditional Surrender" Grant. ![]() Which doesn't make much sense, since neither Alexander Hamilton nor Benjamin Franklin were presidents, and they are prominently on the ten- and hundred-dollar bills respectively. Most people who remember the latter probably do so because he's on the fifty-dollar bill. However, he is much better known as the general who won The American Civil War than as a president. Polk, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson served only one term each, with Tyler, Fillmore, and Johnson not even serving full terms, while William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln died in office (the latter having been assassinated). note Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, James K. Hayes he was the first president to serve two full terms since Andrew Jackson forty years before him. was the 18th President of the United States, serving between 18, preceded by Andrew Johnson and succeeded by Rutherford B. Grant (Ap– July 23, 1885), born as Hiram Ulysses Grant, note Note what the initials spell out.
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