Ulysses S. Grant.

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Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), was an American general and the 18th President

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$Concertina wire surrounds the buildings of the Pontiac Correctional Center, Friday, March 29, 2013 in Pontiac, Ill. Pontiac prison chief Randy Pfister proudly displayed his facility whose oldest part dates to the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant lifting a curtain that Gov. Pat Quinn had drawn over his penitentiaries until last fall but reversed after media agitation. The warden said Friday his staff has absorbed highly volatile former Tamms Correctional Center inmates without violence or other trouble by explaining expectations and \$

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$Tom Capstraw, left, and Zach Warner, both of Albany, look at George Washington\'s Farewell Address, written in his own hand, that is on display at the New York State Museum on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. The document is part of a Presidents Weekend exhibit of New York residents who became president. The exhibit honors Washington, the nation\'s first president, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.$

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A statue of former U.S, President, and Civil War hero, Ulysses S. Grant, looks over the crowds gathering for the swearing-in ceremonies of President Barack Obama on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 21, 2013.

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In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 photo, an oil painting of President Ulysses S. Grant in a bath chair hangs at the Grant Cottage visitors center on the grounds of the the Mount McGregor Correctional Facility in Wilton, N.Y. TROY, SCHENECTADY; SARATOGA SPRINGS; ALBANY OUT.

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$ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, NOV. 12, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - This Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo shows the McLean House, reconstructed on its original site in Appomattox, Va., where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant arrived at the terms of surrender, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War on Sunday, April 9, 1865. Signs around town call this the place \$

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, NOV. 12, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - This Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo shows a room in the McLean House, reconstructed on its original site in Appomattox, Va., where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant arrived at the terms of surrender, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War on Sunday, April 9, 1865.

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Concertina wire surrounds the buildings of the Pontiac Correctional Center, Friday, March 29, 2013 in Pontiac, Ill. Pontiac prison chief Randy Pfister proudly displayed his facility whose oldest part dates to the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant lifting a curtain that Gov. Pat Quinn had drawn over his penitentiaries until last fall but reversed after media agitation. The warden said Friday his staff has absorbed highly volatile former Tamms Correctional Center inmates without violence or other trouble by explaining expectations and "giving them what they have coming nothing more and nothing less."

Tom Capstraw, left, and Zach Warner, both of Albany, look at George Washington's Farewell Address, written in his own hand, that is on display at the New York State Museum on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. The document is part of a Presidents Weekend exhibit of New York residents who became president. The exhibit honors Washington, the nation's first president, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.

A statue of former U.S, President, and Civil War hero, Ulysses S. Grant, looks over the crowds gathering for the swearing-in ceremonies of President Barack Obama on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 21, 2013.

In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 photo, an oil painting of President Ulysses S. Grant in a bath chair hangs at the Grant Cottage visitors center on the grounds of the the Mount McGregor Correctional Facility in Wilton, N.Y. TROY, SCHENECTADY; SARATOGA SPRINGS; ALBANY OUT.

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, NOV. 12, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - This Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo shows the McLean House, reconstructed on its original site in Appomattox, Va., where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant arrived at the terms of surrender, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War on Sunday, April 9, 1865. Signs around town call this the place "where our nation reunited" as the Civil War came to an end. But listen to people here and all over the country, or look at exit polls from the election, and you confront deep division, polarization. Red or blue. Left or right. Big government or small. Tea party or Occupy. Ninety-nine percent or one. Employed or out-of-work. Citizen or non-citizen. Black or white or brown.

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, NOV. 12, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - This Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo shows a room in the McLean House, reconstructed on its original site in Appomattox, Va., where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant arrived at the terms of surrender, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War on Sunday, April 9, 1865.

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