![]() ![]() He once had to eke out a living by selling firewood on St. ![]() He was notoriously unlucky in business.Īfter spending a decade in the army and serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War, Grant resigned his post in 1854 and spent the next seven years flopping as a farmer, real estate agent and rent collector. “You know I have an “S” in my name and don’t know what it stands for.” 2. “Find some name beginning with “S” for me,” he joked in an 1844 letter to his future wife, Julia Dent. Despite Grant’s best efforts to correct the record, the name stuck, and he eventually accepted it as his own. Grant” when he nominated him to attend West Point. His phantom middle initial is the result of an error from Ohio Congressman Thomas Hamer, who accidentally wrote the future general’s name as “Ulysses S. ![]() The 'S' in Grant’s name didn’t stand for anything.Īlthough he was always known as “Ulysses” during his youth in Ohio, Grant’s given name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant. ![]()
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