18th President Ulysses S. Grant is born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Grant, one of the most successful U.S. generals in American history, commanded the Union Army during the second half of the Civil War and was first elected President in 1868, and later reelected in 1872.
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