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… 1826 in Brookville, Indiana. After working in his father’s store, he turned his attention to the law. He ran for a … ultimately served in the House until 1875, when President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him second assistant postmaster general. …

Columbus Delano (1870–1875)

… National Convention in 1860, supported Abraham Lincoln's nomination as President of the United States, and, during … he served from 1865 to 1869 before becoming President Ulysses S. Grant's commissioner of internal revenue. Delano remained as …

Schuyler Colfax (1869–1873)

… losing his first election in 1851, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1854. The next election, he … candidate for the Republicans to run with General Ulysses S. Grant who was the presidential candidate. The pair easily won …

Henry Wilson (1873–1875)

… the same year the state legislature appointed him to the U.S. Senate. In Washington, D.C, he served in the Senate until … the Republican Party chose Wilson to run with President Ulysses S. Grant, after Vice President Schuyler Colfax announced his …

William W. Belknap (1869–1876)

… closely with General William Tecumseh Sherman. At war’s end, Belknap headed home to Iowa, where he served as the … collector of internal revenue (1865-1869). President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Belknap to become his secretary of war in 1869. …

March 4, 1873: Second Inaugural Address

… President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected to a second term in 1872. In …

James D. Cameron (1876–1877)

… the Civil War, Cameron became president of his father’s railroad, the Northern Central, and used it to transport … 1868 and 1880 Republican National Conventions; by 1876, Ulysses S. Grant had tapped him to take over the War Department for the …

March 4, 1869: First Inaugural Address

… In his first Inaugural Address, President Ulysses S. Grant focuses much of his speech on the country's economics. …

May 19, 1869: Proclamation Establishing Eight Hour Workday

… President Grant establishes an eight hour work day for Federal … constituted, on and after that date, eight hours a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by … parts of acts inconsistent therewith: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby …

Jacob D. Cox, Jr. (1869–1870)

… (now Oberlin College), where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1851 and a master’s degree in 1854. Beginning in … commissioner of internal revenue, Cox did accept President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become secretary of the interior, a post he …

September 15, 1874: Proclamation Regarding Disturbances in Louisiana

… Grant calls for the dispersal of the rebellious "White … respective homes within a limited time. Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make …

October 17, 1871: Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus

… President Grant suspends the writ of habeas corpus within certain … and conspiracies aforesaid: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, by …

Benjamin H. Bristow (1874–1876)

… He resigned after two years and was appointed assistant U.S. attorney for the district of Kentucky before assuming the … the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. By 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant had tapped Bristow to be his secretary of the treasury. …

August 22, 1870: Proclamation Establishing US Neutrality

… President Grant issues a proclamation establishing and enforcing U.S. neutrality in the war between France and the North German … during the existence of the contest: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, in order to …

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… The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr. President's Inaugural speech -Wording -14- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY … Rebozo Other Inaugural speeches -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Ulysses S. Grant -Roosevelt -Grover Cleveland -President’s experience …

May 24, 1870: Proclamation Regarding Fenian Brotherhood

… President Grant issues a statement against the attempts of the Fenian … whom the United States are at peace: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby admonish …

Edwin M. Stanton (1865–1868)

… counsel of Pennsylvania, and in 1858 became special U.S. counsel on disputed California land grant cases at the request of President James Buchanan. At … the Tenure of Office Act and fired Stanton, asking General Ulysses S. Grant to fill the vacancy ad interim. Grant did so …

Edwin M. Stanton (1862–1865)

December 12, 1867: Message Regarding the Suspension of Secretary Stanton

… Secretary of War, and on the same day designated General Grant to act as Secretary of War ad interim. The following … to the same. You will at once transfer to General Ulysses S. Grant, who has this day been authorized and empowered to …

Walter Q. Gresham (1883–1884)

… raised a company of volunteers in Corydon. He befriended Ulysses S. Grant when Grant commanded the Army of the Tennessee and was …