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'''Ulysses Simpson Grant''' was the President of the United States from 1869 to 1877. He was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio.  He served as a Union general in the [[Civil War]] and is credited for victory against the south.  After his Presidency he had a cancer in his throat and was in great pain for the rest of his life.  He struggled to write his memoirs but completed them and they provided money for his family after he died.  He died in the morning on July 23, 1885.  <ref> Encyclopedia of Presidents - Ulysses S. Grant by Zachary Kent, Children's Press, 1989. </ref>       
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'''Ulysses Simpson Grant''' was the [[President]] of the United States from 1869 to 1877. He was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio.  He served as a Union general in the [[Civil War]] and is credited for victory against the south.  After his Presidency he had a cancer in his throat and was in great pain for the rest of his life.  He struggled to write his memoirs but completed them and they provided money for his family after he died.  He died in the morning on July 23, 1885.  <ref> Encyclopedia of Presidents - Ulysses S. Grant by Zachary Kent, Children's Press, 1989. </ref>       
    
His administration is often considered to have been one of widespread governmental [[corruption]].   
 
His administration is often considered to have been one of widespread governmental [[corruption]].   
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