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elementary knowledge. In 1828, he was elected Alderman of 

 his village. In 1830, he was elected Mayor. In 1843, ne 

 was elected Member of the Congress, and in 1863, Governor 

 of Tennessee. In 1864, he was elected Vice-President, hence, 

 his re-emplacing President Lincoln, when this last was 

 murdered. 



President Johnson died the 31st of July, 1875, in the 

 county of Carter. 



ULYSSE SIMPSON GRANT, 1869— 1877. 



Ulysse Simpson Grant, the eighteenth President of the 

 United States, entered upon the duties of his office in March, 

 1869. He was so popular and so esteemed by all parties that 

 at the end of his first term, in 1873, he was re-elected without 

 opposition. It was during his second term of office that the 

 Centennial Exhibition of Philadelphia, which was such a great 

 success, was decided upon, and successfully organized. 



This Exhibition was the first step of reconciliation between 

 the Northern and Southern States. General Grant's peaceful 

 administration will always be remembered as that of re- 

 conciliation, peace and progress. In 1869, the Pacific Railway 

 was opened during his administration. 



Ullysse Simpson Grant was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, 

 on the 27th of April, 1822. At the age of seventeen, he 

 entered at the Military School of Westpoint. He left in 1843 

 as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry. In 1848, he took a 

 distinguished part in the Mexican War, was promoted 

 Lieutenant after the battle of Molino del Rey, and Captain 

 after that of Chapultepec, in September, 1847. 



He left military service in 1854, and took the direction of 

 a tanyard, established by his father ; after which he started as 

 a farmer, in the county of San Luis, Missouri. In i860, he 

 went away to Galena, Illinois, where he was busy in the same 

 pacific business when the war was declared between the North 

 and the South. In the month of April, 1861, the Governor of 

 Illinois appointed him Aide-de-camp to the Chief Commander 

 of the State Militia. Soon after, he was nominated Colonel 

 of the 20th Regiment, then General of the Illinois Volunteers, 

 He assisted in that capacity to many sanguinary battles, and 

 achieved great success, especially at the battle of Wickbury, 

 which made him famous among his countrymen. His popularity 

 was so great after the battle of Richmond, that he was unanimously 

 elected President of the United States. He received numerous 



