S. Grant, Ulysses
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Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
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. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War.
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