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Article: Humanist profile: Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885).(Biography)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason's and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other."
--President Ulysses S. Grant, addressing the Army of the Tennessee in Des Moines, Iowa, September 25, 1875
Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was the oldest of six children. At the age of seventeen he was nominated to attend West Point by his congressman, Thomas Hamer, who knew Grant's mother's maiden name ...