[DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia [PAR] Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (186977). As 
Commanding ... Twice elected president, Grant led the Republicans in their effort 
to remove the ... Grant graduated in 1843 from the U.S. Military Academy at West 
Point, ... He appointed the first Civil Service Commission and signed legislation... [DOC] [TLE] West Point History - Notable Graduates [PAR] He was nominated for President in 1864, and served as governor of his ... Barrios
, the Academy's first international cadet to graduate, went on to serve as ... In 
1947, he became deputy Chief of the American Military Advisory Mission to the 
Philippines. .... After his retirement, he served as director of the Office of National 
Drug... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant - U.S. President, General - Biography.com [PAR] Jul 11, 2016 ... Education: United States Military Academy at West Point ... In 1869, at age 46, 
Grant became the youngest president theretofore. ... He was the first son of Jesse 
Root Grant, a tanner and businessman, and Hannah Simpson Grant. ... After 
graduation, Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant was stationed in St. Louis,... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com [PAR] After the war he became a national hero, and the Republicans nominated him for 
... The congressman who appointed Grant mistakenly believed his first name was 
... In 1843, Grant graduated from West Point, where he was known as a skilled .... 
Lasting reform did not take hold until 1883, when President Chester Arthur... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center [PAR] Term: : 18th President of the United States (1869  1877) ... Although Ulysses 
tried to correct the mistake when he arrived at West Point, it was too ... elite, but 
he was assigned to the infantry after graduating twenty-first in a class of thirty-
nine. .... Grant was the first Union commander to truly take the war to the South 
and put... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant | president of United States | Britannica.com [PAR] Grant ranked 21st in a class of 39 when he graduated from West Point in 1843, 
but ... He was then transferred to General Winfield Scott's army, where he first 
served ... made him an aide and assigned him to the state adjutant general's 
office. .... Grant entered the White House on March 4, 1869, politically 
inexperienced and,... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant | whitehouse.gov [PAR] Before he was President, Ulysses S. Grant had led the Union Armies to ... 
Presidents  First Ladies  The Vice President's Residence & Office ... Grant was 
later elected the 18th President of the United States (18691877), ... He went to 
West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of ... From the 
Press Office. [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant - Life & Career - Grant Monument Association [PAR] In 1843, he graduated from West Point 21st in a class of 39 and was ... Grant 
could not take his wife and young son with him on the dangerous trip through the 
Isthmus of ... In his first Civil War battle, Grant defeated a Confederate force at 
Belmont, .... Andrew Johnson had become president upon Lincoln's 
assassination and... [DOC] [TLE] Al Hunt's Top 10 West Point Alumni - Bloomberg View [PAR] Sep 30, 2013 ... He was elected president in 1868 and left office in 1877 as an ... Douglas 
MacArthur: This 1903 graduate was first in his class and is America's most ... 
Omar Bradley: A graduate of the 1915 West Point class, often referred to as ... 
after taking Atlanta, he cut confederate communication and supply lines and... [DOC] [TLE] America's Civil War Comes to West Point | HistoryNet [PAR] Five years later Secretary of War John H. Eaton advised President Jackson that 
the ... In the Army, and even more so at West Point, the cadet or graduate was 
isolated from the ... When he allowed it to reorganize, he limited it to 
noncontroversial topics. ... One of the Alabama cadets was second classman 
Charles P. Ball, first... [DOC] [TLE] Timeline

Question: Taking office in 1869, he was the first West Point graduate to become president
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant