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Resume of Ulysses S. Grant Background Information: • Name: Ulysses Simpson Grant • Born: April 27, 1822– Point Pleasant, Ohio • Education: United States Military Academy at West Point • Occupations: farmer, leather goods businessman, soldier • Wife: Julia Boggs Dent Grant • Strength/Interests: math, classic literature, horseback riding Political Experience • Commander of the Union Army in the later years of the Civil War • 18th President of the United States of America Interesting Facts • He wanted to be a math teacher at West Point after he graduated, but did not get the chance • Believed in a lenient Reconstruction policy after the Civil War • He was 46 years old when he became President, the youngest at that time • He and his wife had 4 children • He served 2 terms as President • After he left office he and his wife went on a tour of the world and were greeted as heroes wherever they went. Death: July 23, 1885 Resume of Robert E. Lee Background Information: • Name: Robert Edward Lee • Born: January 19, 1807 – Stratford, Virginia • Education: Educated in local schools, graduated 2nd in his class at West Point • Occupations: soldier, engineer • Wife: Mary Ann Randolph Custis • Strength/Interests: loyalty, hard working, devotion Political Experience • Commander of the army that went to stop John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry. • General in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia • Surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse ending the Civil War. Interesting Facts • His father was Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, a hero of the American Revolution. • His wife was the great-granddaughter of George and Martha Washington • He had 7 children, all 3 of his sons fought with the Confederate Army during the Civil War. • Lee was asked to take control of the army and put down the rebellion when the first 6 states seceded from the Union. Instead, he turned in his resignation and offered his services to Jefferson Davis. • After the Civil War Lee was almost tried as a traitor, but instead had his civil rights suspended. President Gerald Ford had Lee’s citizenship restored. • After the war he became the President of Washington University, which was later named Washington and Lee Death: October 12, 1870 Resume of Abraham Lincoln Background Information: • Name: Abraham Lincoln • Born: February 12, 1809 – Nolon Creek, Kentucky • Education: small local schools • Occupations: farmer, store owner, lawyer • Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln • Strength/Interests: equality, inventions, learning, reading, fairness Political Experience • Postmaster of New Salem • Deputy County Surveyor • Elected to the Illinois General Assembly • Elected to the US House of Representative • Elected the 16th president of the United State in 1860 Interesting Facts • First president born outside of the original 13 colonies • When he was 9 years old he was kicked in the head by a horse and thought dead. • His mom died of milk sickness, a disease obtained from drinking the milk of cows which had grazed on poisonous white snakeroot • Helped to get the Illinois state capital moved from Vandalia to Springfield. • Only president to be granted a patent (invented a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or other vessel to make it easier to move through shallow water) • He grew a beard because a little girl wrote him a letter suggesting it. • Two of Lincoln’s four sons died while he was alive. Edward died when he was 4 years old, and his son Thomas or “Tad” died at the age of 12. Death: April 15, 1865 assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on the 14th, but dies the morning of the 15th. Resume of Harriet Tubman Background Information: • Name: Araminta Ross (changed her name to Harriet after her mother) • Born: 1820 in Maryland • Education: none • Occupations: born a slave, conductor on the Underground Railroad • Husband: John Tubman • Strength/Interests: equality, bravery, freedom, dedication Political Experience • Abolitionist • Helped fight for women’s rights with Susan B. Anthony Interesting Facts • Was hit in the head by a 2 pound weight thrown by an overseer and seriously damaged. She suffered deep sleeping spells the rest of her life as a result of the injury. • Made over 19 trips on the Underground Railroad and freed over 300 slaves • She never lost a “passenger” on the Underground Railroad • At one point there was a reward of $40,000 for her capture • During the Civil War she worked for the Union as a cook, nurse and spy • Her nickname was “Moses” because of all the people she freed from slavery. Death: March 10, 1913