How did Ulysses S. Grant get elected President?

To avoid breaking up or being torn apart, their second ELECTED President needed to be someone almost universally respected, no established enemies. Oh look, a victorious general with no established political ambitions. read more

In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. read more

The United States presidential election of 1868 was the 21st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour. read more