Ulysses S. Grant (AMPU)

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 13th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States. A prominent United States Army general prior to the Second American Revolution, Grant famously resigned his commission when Lee tried to appoint him to lead the US Army to dislodge the Republicans from the South. Grant famously went to Brant, Alabama as a private citizen and was nominated to challenge and defeat Lee in the 1860 Presidential Election.

Grant would lead one of the nation's most radical administrations, seizing property from southern plantation owners and industrialists who exploited workers, and generally establishing the Federal Government's supremacy over the states. His policy of "Reconstruction" ultimately focused on dismantling the system of land-owner dominance over American society and in many ways solidifying the modern American nation-state.