Ulysses S. Grant — 18th President of the United States
18th President of the United States, Republican
Ulysses S. Grant
Term: Mar 4, 1869 – Mar 4, 1877
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was the eighteenth president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877, and had commanded Union forces to victory in the Civil War. His two terms saw active federal enforcement of Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation, including military intervention against the Ku Klux Klan, alongside the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment granting Black men the right to vote. His administration was also marked by significant corruption scandals, including the Crédit Mobilier affair and the Whiskey Ring, though Grant himself was not personally implicated in the fraud.
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”