Vice President: Henry Wilson Secretary of State: Hamilton Fish Secretary of the Treasury: William A. Richardson; Benjamin H. Bristow (from June 1874); Lot M. Morrill (from July 1876)
Secretary of War: William W. Belknap; Alphonso Taft (from March 1876); James D. Cameron (from June 1876)
Attorney General: George H. Williams; Edwards Pierrepont (from May 1875); Alphonso Taft (from June 1876)
Postmaster General: John A. J. Creswell; James W. Marshall (from July 1874); Marshall Jewell (from September 1874); James N. Tyner (from July 1876)
Secretary of the Navy: George M. Robeson Secretary of the Interior: Columbus Delano;
Zachariah Chandler (from October 1875) Supreme Court Appointment: Morrison R.
Waite, Chief Justice (1874)
State Admitted: Colorado (1876)
Father: Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) Mother: Hannah Simpson Grant (1798-1883)
Wife: Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902)
Marriage: August 22, 1848
Children: Frederic Dent (1850-1912);
Ulysses Simpson (1852-1929); Ellen Wrenshall (1855-1922); Jesse Root (1858-1934)
Ulysses S. Grant was once fined $20 for riding too fast on his horse.
By the end of his eight years as president, every one of his executive offices had come under congressional investigation for corruption.
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