Hannah Simpson Grant
Hannah Simpson Grant (November 23, 1798 – May 11, 1883) was the mother of Ulysses S. Grant, a Union general in the American Civil War and the 18th president of the United States.
She married Jesse Root Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and was the mother of six children.
Little is known about her private life, other than what can be discerned from general and public information.
She rarely discussed her son with anyone while he was a general and a president, especially not the press.
She was a devoutly religious woman, always reserved and unpretentious in her manner, and she is often considered by historians and others to have had a strong influence on her son Ulysses who shared similar qualities in character.
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Thomas L. Hamer
Thomas Lyon Hamer( July 1800 – December 2, 1846) was a United States Democratic congressman and soldier.
Hamer was born in July, 1800 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
He was a school teacher before being admitted to the bar in 1821.
He was an Ohio Presidential elector in 1828 for Andrew Jackson.
He practiced law in Georgetown, Ohio and was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828, which body unanimously chose him as their Speaker in December 1829.
As Speaker, he sought to maintain independence from party politics; although Jackson's supporters controlled a slight advantage over John Quincy Adams' supporters, he appointed Adams men as a majority in seven of the fifteen standing committees.
When the Jackson caucus proposed enforcing party discipline during judicial elections, Hamer fought the proposal fiercely; envisioning a choice between the party candidate and the candidate he believed best qualified, he denounced a vote for the party candidate as perjury of his oath of office.
These statements won him criticism from party stalwarts who deemed him unfaithful to the interests of his party.
Following service in the House, Hamer was elected to the U.S. Congress.
While serving as a congressman he nominated Hiram Ulysses Grant, the son of Jesse Root Grant, a constituent( the friend of his father- in- law), to be a cadet at West Point.
Hamer incorrectly put on the nomination the name Ulysses S. Grant( assuming his middle name was his mother's maiden name of Simpson, the custom of the time) and the name stayed with the new cadet.
When the Mexican – American
War broke out Hamer volunteered as a private in the Ohio Volunteers, and was quickly commissioned as a major in June 1846.
Popular and well respected, Hamer was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers on July 1, 1846.
He was placed in command of the 1st Brigade of William O. Butler's Volunteer Division of the Army of Occupation.
He led his brigade with distinction into the fighting at the battle of Monterrey.
When General Butler fell wounded, Hamer assumed command of the division.
When Mexican General Pedro de Ampudia requested to discuss surrender terms, it was Hamer who delivered the message to General Taylor.
While still serving in the army he was elected to another term in Congress but died unexpectedly while stationed with the army at Monterrey on December 2, 1846.
Upon Hamer's death, General Zachary Taylor exclaimed" I have lost the balance wheel of my volunteer army" and Lt. Ulysses S. Grant also lamented that the" U.S. has lost a future president."
Grant later described him as" one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced."
He was buried in his hometown of Georgetown, a few miles from his namesake village of Hamersville.
Also named in his honor is Hamer Township in neighboring Highland County, Ohio.
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Jesse Root Grant
Jesse Root Grant (January 23, 1794 – June 29, 1873) was a farmer, tanner and successful leather merchant who owned tanneries and leather goods shops in several different states throughout his adult life.
He is best known as the father of Ulysses S. Grant and the one who introduced Ulysses to military life at West Point.
Jesse was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and was one of seven children.
He was a self-made man who rose from poverty to become a somewhat wealthy merchant.
At age five, Jesse's family moved to Ohio and settled in the .
Unable to support all his children
Jesse's father arranged for his apprenticeship at farms and tanneries during his youth.
Jesse married Hannah Simpson Grant and they became the parents of three boys and three girls, with Ulysses being their oldest.
Raised in a poor family that was forced to split up and having to work at an early age, Jesse persistently encouraged his sons in the ways of education, industry and hard work, his methods sometimes testing his father-son relationship with Ulysses.
As a young man he worked for and came to know Owen Brown and soon acquired strong abolitionist sympathies.
Jesse was known to be outspoken, had strong opinions about politics and often boasted about his son, often referring to him as "my Ulysses".
Originally a Jacksonian, Jesse eventually broke with the Democrats as he developed anti-slavery leanings, and for a time wrote a number of controversial editorials in support of abolition and about other issues, including Ulysses at Shiloh.
He became involved in local politics and was elected Mayor in Georgetown and later, Bethel, both in Ohio.
During the American Civil War Jesse and his two partners became involved in cotton speculation and personally prevailed upon his son Ulysses, now a Commanding General, requesting permits to deal in cotton in Grant's district, causing serious complications.
Soon after the war Jesse stood next to his son Ulysses while he was sworn in as President, thereafter becoming a frequent visitor to the White House, while living out his final years in Covington, Kentucky.
Much has been learned about the earlier years of his son Ulysses from letters between the two and other material relating to Jesse's background and business.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
Before his presidency, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civil War.
As president, Grant worked with the Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction of the Union while having to deal with corruption in his administration.
Raised in Ohio, young Grant possessed an exceptional ability with horses, which served him well through his military career.
He was admitted to West Point and graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1843.
Grant served with distinction in the Mexican–American War.
In 1848, he married Julia Dent, and together they had four children.
Grant abruptly resigned his army commission in 1854 and returned to his family, but lived in poverty for seven years.
During the Civil War, he joined the Union Army in 1861, and led the Vicksburg campaign, which gained control of the Mississippi River in 1863.
After Grant's victory at Chattanooga, President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to Lieutenant General.
For thirteen months, Grant fought Robert E. Lee during the high casualty Overland Campaign and at Petersburg.
On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.
A week later, Lincoln was assassinated, and was succeeded by President Andrew Johnson, who promoted Grant to General of the Army in 1866.
Later Grant openly broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies; Grant used the reconstruction acts, which had been passed over Johnson's veto, to enforce civil rights for African freedmen.
A war hero but a reluctant politician
, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and was elected president in 1868.
As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan.
He appointed African-Americans and Jewish-Americans to prominent federal offices.
In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission.
The Liberal Republicans and Democrats united behind Grant's opponent in the presidential election of 1872, but Grant was handily re-elected.
Grant's Native American policy had both successes and failures.
In foreign affairs, the Grant administration peacefully resolved the "Alabama" claims against Great Britain, but the Senate rejected Grant's prized Caribbean Dominican Republic annexation.
Corruption in the executive branch became notorious: several of Grant's cabinet members and other appointees were fired or had to resign.
The Panic of 1873 plunged the nation into a severe economic depression, that allowed the Democrats win the House majority.
In the intensely disputed Presidential election of 1876, Grant facilitated the approval by Congress of a peaceful compromise.
In his retirement, Grant was the first president to circumnavigate the world on his tour meeting with many foreign leaders.
In 1880, Grant was unsuccessful in obtaining the Republican presidential nomination for a third term.
In the final year of his life, facing severe financial reversals and dying of throat cancer, he wrote his memoirs, which proved to be a major critical and financial success.
At the time of his death, he was memorialized as a symbol of national unity.
Historical assessments of Grant's legacy have varied.
Historians have recognized Grant's military genius, and his modern strategies of warfare are featured in military history textbooks.
20th century historical rankings of presidents of the United States have ranked Grant among the worst presidents because of corruption charges against some of his top appointees or White House military aides.
21st century historians have emphasized Grant's presidential accomplishments including the Alabama Claims settlement, protection of Blacks and Indians, and the first Civil Service Commission.
Grant was an embattled president who faced a difficult challenge getting the entire nation to accept Reconstruction efforts.
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Jesse Root Grant (politician)
Jesse Root Grant II (February 6, 1858 – June 8, 1934) was an American politician.
He was the youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant.
He joined the Democratic Party and quixotically sought the party nomination for President, running against William Jennings Bryan in 1908.
In 1925, he wrote a biography of his father.
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Question: Where did Jesse Root Grant (Politician)'s father study?
Answer: Army