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… style go back much further, according to Stephen Rockwell’s new book, The Presidency and the American State: Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft Administrations , published by the Miller … How did the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Howard Taft touch the lives of …

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… Civil War -Memorial to General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant at West Point -Implications for the South … Richard M. …

William T. Sherman (1869)

… and taking over Union command in the West when General Ulysses S. Grant became commander in chief of the Union army. Sherman’s …

James W. Marshall (1874)

… the department until 1861. Marshall was then appointed U.S. consul to Leeds, England, where he served until 1865. Four years later, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Marshall to become first assistant postmaster …

Ebenezer R. Hoar (1869–1870)

… Supreme Court. He then became the first of President Ulysses S. Grant’s five attorney generals. During his time in office, …

Alphonso Taft (1876–1877)

… which time he resumed his law practice. In 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Taft to become his secretary of war, a post …

John A. Rawlins (1869)

… conflict as the assistant-adjutant general heading General Ulysses S. Grant’s staff . Rawlins contracted tuberculosis, however, and …

Adolph E. Borie (1869)

… involved himself in political affairs. Borie served as U.S. consul to Belgium in 1843, was a member of the Republican … Party, supported the Union, and befriended a young Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant won the presidency in 1868, he nominated …

William A. Richardson (1873–1874)

… to 1896, Richardson worked on issuing his Supplements of U.S. congressional legislation. At the request of Treasury Secretary George S. Boutwell, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Richardson assistant secretary of the …

Amos T. Akerman (1870–1871)

… began to oppose slavery. Akerman was a member to Georgia’s 1868 state constitutional convention and began serving as … attorney for Georgia in 1869. One year later, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Akerman to become his second attorney general, …

Alphonso Taft (1876)

… which time he resumed his law practice. In 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Taft to become his secretary of war, a post …

Edwards Pierrepont (1875–1876)

… from seceding and supporting Republican Abraham Lincoln’s reelection as President and President Johnson’s policies of … left the party and backed the Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant. Following his election, President Grant appointed …

George H. Williams (1871–1875)

… Williams served on a special commission for President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 before becoming Grant’s third attorney general. …

Marshall Jewell (1874–1876)

… telegraph lines. In 1850, Jewell took over his father’s tanning business in Connecticut and accrued substantial … and again in both 1871 and 1872. Jewell accepted President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become U.S. minister to Russia, where he …

Hamilton Fish (1869–1877)

… government. After an initial refusal to join President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet in 1869, Fish soon accepted Grant’s offer of …

Elihu B. Washburne (1869)

… a Whig and then as Republican, before becoming President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of state, a post he held for less than two …

John A. J. Creswell (1869–1874)

… John Angel James Creswell was born in 1828 at Creswell’s Ferry (now Fort Deposit), Maryland. He graduated first in … Senate, though he declined to serve. In 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Creswell to become his postmaster general, a …

George M. Robeson (1869–1877)

… for Camden County. During the Civil War, New Jersey’s governor appointed Robeson a brigadier general, but Robeson … general in 1867; two years later, he became President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of the Navy, a post he held until the end …

Lot M. Morrill (1876–1877)

… left the Democratic party in 1856 because of the party’s stance on slavery, so it was as a Republican that he was … filling a vacancy. He served until 1876, when President Ulysses S. Grant tapped him to become secretary of the treasury. Though …

Zachariah Chandler (1875–1877)

… 1851 to 1852, and made a failed bid to become the state’s governor in 1852. A dissatisfied Whig, Chandler led … D.C., soon thereafter, having accepted President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become secretary of the interior in 1875. …