Download Resume of Ulysses S. Grant

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