Ulysses S. Grant

1822 – 1885

Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President of the United States and was a prominent general during the American Civil War, leading Union forces to victory and promoting the passage of the 15th Amendment, which granted African American men the right to vote. His presidency is marked by efforts to enforce civil rights and to combat the Ku Klux Klan's violence against African Americans in the South, striving to protect the gains made during Reconstruction.