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1868 Nov 3 |
Republican Ulysses S. Grant was elected 18th president. He won the election over Democrat Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), two-time governor of NY (1853-54 and 1863-64), by 27,000 votes. Seymour ran fairly close to Ulysses Grant in the popular vote, but was defeated decisively in the electoral vote by a count of 214 to 80. Grant used the 1867 typewriter phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" for his campaign. Links: USA, New York, GrantU 
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1870 Jul 14 |
Pres. Ulysses S. Grant signed the Naturalization Act of 1870 (16 Stat. 254). This was a United States federal law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices. It is also noted for extending the naturalization process to "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent" while also revoking the citizenship of naturalized Chinese Americans. Links: GrantU
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1871 Mar |
Pres. Grant sent federal troops to South Carolina to suppress violence instigated by the Ku Klux Klan. Links: USA, Black History, South Carolina, KKK, GrantU
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1871 Oct 12 |
President Grant ordered the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan to disperse and disarm in five days. Links: USA, South Carolina, KKK, GrantU
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1871 Oct 17 |
President Grant suspended writ of habeas corpus in South Carolina in response to violence by the KKK. It applied to all arrests made by US marshals and federal troops in nine of the state’s western counties. By the end of November some 600 arrests were made. Links: USA, Black History, South Carolina, KKK, GrantU
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1872 Mar 1 |
President Ulysses S. Grant signed a measure creating Yellowstone National Park (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming). The act of Congress creating Yellowstone National Park was based on a report from an expedition led by Ferdinand Hayden. The 2.2 million-acre preserve was the first step in a national park system. Nathaniel Pitt Langford (39) was appointed the 1st Superintendent. Links: USA, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, GrantU
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1872 |
The US Congress restored the writ of Habeas Corpus, suspended by Pres. Grant in 1871. Links: USA, GrantU
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1873 Mar 4 |
Pres. Ulysses S. Grant accepted the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Salmon Chase, for his 2nd term. At the inauguration ceremony 150 canaries, whose chirping was to amuse guests, froze to death in their cages. Links: USA, GrantU, Birds
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1873 |
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner authored “The Gilded Age,” a novel set in the scandalous Grant administration. Links: USA, Books, GrantU
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1875 |
In the United States the Whiskey Ring scandal was exposed. It involved diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. The Whiskey Ring began in St. Louis but was also organized in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Peoria. Pres. Ulysses S. Grant appointed John Brooks Henderson as the first special prosecutor to investigate the conspiracy. Grant eventually fired Henderson for challenging Grant's interference in the prosecutions. Grant replaced Henderson with attorney James Broadhead. Links: USA, Missouri, Liquor, Govm't Scandal, GrantU
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1876 Feb 8 |
A trial began for Pres. Ulysses S. Grant's private secretary, Gen. Orville E. Babcock. He was acquitted after 18 days of involvement in the Whiskey Ring, a conspiracy among distillers, revenue collectors, and high federal officials to avoid taxation through fraudulent reports on whiskey production. 230 indictments were secured, but no convictions were made. Grant helped Babcock secure an acquittal for his part in the ring. This affair contributed to the reputation for corruption that Grant's administrations acquired. Links: USA, Liquor, Govm't Scandal, GrantU
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1876 Mar 2 |
US Secretary of War William W. Belknap went to the Executive Mansion, handed President Ulysses S. Grant his resignation and burst into tears. The Senate tried Belknap after he resigned for allegedly taking bribes. Both the House and the Senate decided that Belknap could be tried after he had left office. Belknap is the only US Cabinet member ever to have been impeached by the House. Links: USA, Corruption, GrantU
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1876 |
Orvil Grant (1835-1881), the younger brother of Pres. Ulysses S. Grant, was accused of involvement in a scheme of illicit payments to contractors at Indian trading posts run by the Army. Orvil was an investor in three Midwest trading posts that sold products at inflated prices to Army troops and Indians. Pres. Grant denounced the allegations and arranged for the demotion and arrest of chief accuser, Col. George Armstrong Custer. A public outcry quickly led to Custer being released and reinstated to his rank. Links: USA, GrantU
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1883 Sep 8 |
The Northern Pacific Railway celebrated the completion of its east-west line with a Gold Spike at Gold Creek in central Montana. Guests included Frederick Billings, Ulysses S. Grant, and the family of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Links: USA, GrantU
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1884 May 4 |
Ferdinand Ward came by the NYC home of Pres. Ulysses S. Grant and told him that the Marine National Bank was having temporary difficulties because of a large unexpected withdrawal by one of its clients. He asked Grant if he could come up with $150,000 for only 24 hours and by Monday or Tuesday the situation would be all cleared up. Grant, that same day, limped from his home and went to see his friend William Henry Vanderbilt. He asked Vanderbilt to lend him $150,000, telling him the same story Ward had fabricated. Vanderbilt told Grant he did not care one bit about the Marine National Bank, but that he would be pleased to make a personal loan to Grant for the amount requested. Links: USA, Scam, GrantU
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1884 May 6 |
Buck Grant told his father, former Pres. Ulysses S. Grant, that a loan to Ferdinand Ward had gone bad and that Ward had absconded with the money. The Grants were wiped out, as were other trusting investors, including friends and family of the Grants. Ward’s Ponzi scheme led to the collapse of major financial institutions on Wall Street and around the country. In 2012 Geoffrey C. Ward, the grandson of Ferdinand Ward, authored “A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated man in the United States. Links: USA, Books, Scam, GrantU
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1885 Jul 23 |
Ulysses S. Grant (b.1822), commander of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War and the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, NY, at age 63. He had just completed the final revisions to his memoirs, which were published as a 2 volume set by Mark Twain. In 1928 W.E. Woodward authored "Meet General Grant," and in 1981 William S. McFreeley authored "Grant: A Biography." His tomb was placed in the largest mausoleum in the US on a bluff over the Hudson River. In 1998 Geoffrey Perret published the biography "Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President." In 2004 Mark Perry authored “Grant and Twain.” In 2006 Edward G. Longacre authored “General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and Man.” In 2011 Charles Bracelen Flood authored “Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year.” Links: USA, New York, Biography, GrantU
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