This allowed the president to confer in person with Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman about the hostilities, as Sherman coincidentally managed a hasty visit to Grant from his position in North Carolina.

Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final " golden spike " in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.

More than any other president, Grant had to respond to Congressional investigations into financial corruption charges of all federal departments.

Rawlin's response was that while Grant was a loyal member of the Republican Party, he would be unable to serve as president for financial reasons, since he would lose his lifetime military pension upon ascendancy to the White House, and the presidency did not provide any such income benefit.

When he assumed the presidency, Grant had never before held elected office and, at the age of 46, was the youngest person yet elected president.

Grant appointed more Jews to public office than any president before him.

The second president from Ohio, Grant was elected the 18th President of the United States in 1868, and was re-elected to the office in 1872 ; he served as President from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1877.

Grant was the first president to have both parents living at the time of his election.

As president for two terms, Grant made many advances in civil and human rights.

Grant, 7th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( b. 1856 )

Grant, seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1945 )

With his health failing, Grant devoted his time to his autobiography ; five days after finishing it, he became the only U. S. president to die of cancer.

When Grant became president in 1869, Sherman was appointed Commanding General of the United States Army and promoted to General of the Army.

Greeley got a mere sixty votes in the electoral college when he ran for president against Ulysses S. Grant and died shortly thereafter from severe illnesses and broken spirits.

He endorsed Grant for president in 1868, attended his inauguration ceremonies, and six days later received an appointment as surveyor of customs in New Orleans.

The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, which was signed into law by Johnson a month after becoming president, authorized several times more college aid within a five-year period than had been appropriated under the Land Grant College in a century, and provided better college libraries, ten to twenty new graduate centers, several new technical institutes, classrooms for several hundred thousand students, and twenty-five to thirty new community colleges a year.

Clinton was not the first president to visit the islands ; Ulysses S. Grant visited the vacation residence of his friend, Bishop Gilbert Haven on August 24, 1874.

Grant, who served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Seward retired as Secretary of State after Ulysses S. Grant took office as president.

Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University ; Hugh Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto ; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners ; Gwendolyn King, president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau ; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation ; William U. Parfet, chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc .; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA ; George H. Poste, chief executive of Health Technology Networks ; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.

Grant, president of the LDS Church, ca 1918-1920.

Grant ( who served as President of the LDS Church from 1918 to 1945 ).

One of these, Grant Palmer, a former director of LDS Institutes of Religion who was disfellowshipped by the LDS Church in 2004 after writing An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, argued that moderns " tend to read into Witnesses ' testimonies a rationalist perspective rather than a nineteenth-century magical mindset .... They shared a common world view, and this is what drew them together in 1829.

When Jedediah M. Grant died in 1856, Wells was ordained an apostle of the LDS Church and set apart as Second Counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the church.

Grant announced that Apostle Melvin J. Ballard and Seventy Rulon S. Wells would go with Pratt to establish the LDS Church in South America.

In 1937, LDS President Heber Grant had visited Germany and urged the members to remain, get along, and not cause trouble.

Grant, the last LDS church president to have practiced polygamy, dies.

Jedediah Morgan Grant ( February 21, 1816 – December 1, 1856 ) was a leader and an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

One such example can be cited from Section 161, presented as counsel to the church by W. Grant McMurray in 1996: " Become a people of the Temple — those who see violence but proclaim peace, who feel conflict yet extend the hand of reconciliation, who encounter broken spirits and find pathways for healing.

Raised in a Methodist family devoid of religious pretentiousness, Grant prayed privately and was not an official member of the church.

Unlike his younger siblings, Grant was neither disciplined, baptized, nor forced to attend church by his parents.

Part of Grant's demerits were due to his refusal, at times, of compulsory church attendance, then a West Point policy that Grant viewed as anti-republican.

In its prime, " Old " Ulysses boasted four hotels ( the most notable, Hotel Edwards, pictured hereon, which was moved to " New Ulysses " in 1909, and has been preserved / restored, currently resting on the grounds of The Historic Adobe Museum for Grant County, Kansas today ), twelve restaurants, twelve saloons, a bank, six gambling houses, a large schoolhouse, a church, a newspaper office, and an opera house to serve the approximately 1500 residents.

In 1981, Smith was signed as a writer to Meadowgreen Music, where he wrote a number of gospel hits penned for artists such as Sandi Patty, Kathy Troccoli, Bill Gaither and Amy Grant, to the effect that some of these popular worship songs can now be found in church hymnals.

This pattern was broken by Wallace B. Smith, who designated W. Grant McMurray church president.

The Grant Memorial Baptist Church in Winnipeg is the oldest surviving Canadian BGC church.

Grant by Thomas, earl of Ormond, to Reginald Bray, knight, of the lordships or manors of Shire and Vachary in Craneley parish, for his life, reserving the advowson of Shire church and the right of entry into Vachary park to hunt, with easement for the said earl, his servants and horses when staying within the lordship of Shire ; Reginald providing a chaplain called ' a chauntry prest ' to officiate in the chapel of Vachary manor ; with letter of attorney authorising John Westbroke to deliver seisin.

Grant, Richards became the second-most senior apostle in the church and thus the President of the Quorum of the Twelve on May 21, 1945, a position which he held until his death.

D3270 / 2 Grant ( 1529 ) 6 October 21 Henry VIII ( 1529 ) of Richard prior of Llanthony to Thomas Messenger and others of part of the burial ground of the church of St Mary Crypt for the erection of a school house thereon, rendering yearly to the rector a red rose if demanded.

Grant receives approval of the church for the establishment of a theological training college.

St Andrew's Church, the oldest church in Ramsbottom, was built by the Grant family in 1834 as a Scottish Presbyterian Church.

In the 1860s a member of the Grant family deprived the congregation of its church and in 1869 offered it to the Bishop of Manchester as an Anglican church.

This pattern was broken by Wallace B. Smith, who designated W. Grant McMurray church president.

Prior to the Presidency of W. Grant McMurray, the call of Apostles and other members of presiding quorums of the church were named in an " inspired document " that was added to the Scriptures of the Church in the Doctrine and Covenants.

After some years of gradually failing health, Grant died of heart disease very suddenly at his residence, The Lodge, Melton Mowbray, on 5 Oct. 1878, and was interred in the church of England burying-ground in that town, his relatives having declined the usual honour of burial in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Grant was said to have been responsible for the site which was in a direct line from his own house, Nuttall Hall, and St Andrew's church.

" Robert Grant noted the afore-mentioned parallels to Polycarp's Epistles and suggested he might be the author. If “… the author of the Pastorals is seen as a separate individual, and not as a depleted or altered Paul, he assumes a new position of importance in the New Testament and in the history of the ancient church.

Ironically, Grant, an agnostic, spends most of his time in the church on the Henry Pichot Plantation.

Grant is continually challenged with the fact that he is an outsider in his place of work ; he does not attend church with the rest of his settlement.