On August 22, 1848, after a four-year engagement, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent ( 1826 – 1902 ), the daughter of a prominent Missouri plantation and slave owner, and sister of a West Point roommate, Frederick.

After the election, in an attempt to reconcile with Jewish leaders and people, Grant offered the position of Secretary of the Treasury to Joseph Seligman, a prominent Jewish businessman.

Alphonso Taft went to Cincinnati in 1839 to open a law practice, and was a prominent Republican who served as Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant.

In 1874, with Sherman having become world famous, their eldest child, Marie Ewing (" Minnie ") Sherman, also had a politically prominent wedding, attended by President Ulysses S. Grant and commemorated by a generous gift from the Khedive of Egypt.

On May 10, Grant ordered attacks across the Confederate line of earthworks, which by now extended over 4 miles ( 6. 5 km ), including a prominent salient known as the Mule Shoe.

He was popular with his classmates, however, and befriended a number of men who would become prominent during the Civil War, including George Henry Thomas, William S. Rosecrans, John Pope, D. H. Hill, Lafayette McLaws, George Pickett, and Ulysses S. Grant of the class of 1843.

One of the most prominent and historic churches in Oakland is St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, where U. S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison have all attended services.

Grant met with prominent black leaders for consultation, and signed a bill into law that guaranteed equal rights to both blacks and whites in Washington D. C.

In 1967 Rutgers Physics Department had a Centers of Excellence Grant from the NSF which allowed the Physics Department to hire several faculty each year and become a more prominent Institution.

Heart Butte is a prominent geographic feature in Grant County, and the namesake for the nearby Heart Butte Dam.

Coco, prominent Marksville area lawyer ( 1881-1888 ), Judge of the District Court for Avoyelles, Rapides and Grant Parishes ( 1888-1896 ), member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Louisiana ( New Orleans, 1898 ), Louisiana State Attorney General.

Under a flag of truce, Eufaula's mayor, Doctor C. J. Pope, and other prominent citizens met General Grierson beyond College Hill with news that General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse and that the Civil War was over.

Other prominent persons born and educated in Oamaru include Des Wilson, founder of the UK homelessness charity, Shelter ; Australian Prime Minister Chris Watson ; New Zealand politicians Arnold Nordmeyer and William Steward ; Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams ; Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College London ; and All Blacks rugby union captain Richie McCaw.

The settlers who owned the land about Old Stockbridge asked so much for their land that two prominent Atlanta citizens, John W. Grant and George W. Adair, bought a tract about a mile south of Old Stockbridge and offered lots at a reasonable price.

As a result, the recreational and education concepts have become a prominent part of the Grant ’ s management with untold opportunities for use by the Dartmouth Family.

The city is named after John Long, a prominent miner who came to Grant County in 1862 during the Canyon City rush of that same year.

Lord Invader ( Rupert Westmore Grant, 13 December 1914-15 October 1961 ) was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice.

In 1935 Grant was selected along with nearly 30 other prominent British artists of the day to provide works of art for the RMS Queen Mary then being built in Scotland.

Cuthbert Grant ( 1793 – July 15, 1854 ) was a prominent Métis leader of the early nineteenth century.

John Fitzwilliam Stairs, also known as John Fitz William Stairs ( January 19, 1848 – September 26, 1904 ) was an entrepreneur and statesman, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a member of the prominent Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs ( 1789 – 1865 ) that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant Stairs.

After ruling out a promotion of a sitting Associate Justice to Chief ( despite much lobbying from the legal community for prominent Justice Samuel Freeman Miller ), Grant offered the Chief Justiceship to Senators Oliver Morton of Indiana and Timothy Howe of Wisconsin, then to his own Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, before finally submitting to the Senate his nomination of Attorney General George H. Williams on December 1.

Contemporaries and friends at York included the future journalists Linda Grant and Peter Hitchens, the latter then a prominent member of the International Socialists.

" Several of her prominent close friends ( among them Betsy Drake, the actress who was once married to Cary Grant ; investigative journalist John Pilger ; writer James Fox ; and Martha's younger brother, Alfred ) have dismissed the characterizations of her as sexually manipulative and maternally deficient.

Working with a range of other Americans prominent in foreign policy, including Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, Norman Cousins of Saturday Review, James Grant of the Overseas Development Council, anthropologist Margaret Mead, World Federalist Chairman H. Donald Wilson, and World Bank president Robert McNamara, Evans organized an organization called New Directions.

* Richard G. Grant, Reformed Egyptian: ' In the Language of My Fathers ', Mormon apologetics.

As the terminal of the railroad at the time, Benton had a colorful three month history which ended in September 1868 with a visit from Republican presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant and the departure of the final overland wagon trains on the Mormon Trail headed for the Salt Lake Valley before completion of the railroad the following year.

Grant Palmer, author of the book An Insider's View of Mormon Origins stated that his work was influenced in part by his original acceptance of the Salamander Letter as being valid and supportive of his view.

The first, " Book of Mormon Difficulties: A Study ," was a 141-page manuscript written in response to a series of questions by an inquirer, referred to Roberts by Mormon president Heber Grant.

* Hardy, Grant Understanding the Book of Mormon: a reader's guide ( ISBN 978-0-19-973170-1 )

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.

Other early participants included Cleon Skousen, a prominent Mormon theologian and founder of the Freemen Institute ; Paul Weyrich ; Phyllis Schlafly ; Robert Grant ; Howard Phillips, a former Republican affiliated with the Constitution Party ; Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail specialist ; and Morton Blackwell, a Louisiana and Virginia activist who is considered a specialist on the rules of the Republican Party.

Mormon Thunder: A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant.

During the Reformation, Young sent his counselor Jedediah M. Grant and other church leaders to preach to the people throughout Utah Territory and surrounding Mormon communities with the goal of inspiring them to reject sin and turn towards spiritual things.

Although Grant died shortly after one of his winter tours, a victim of pneumonia, the influence of the reformation spread throughout the Mormon colonies.

Mormon Thunder: A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant.

* Grant Underwood ( born 1954 ), American Mormon historian

* Hardy, Grant Understanding the Book of Mormon: a reader's guide ( ISBN 978-0-19-973170-1 )

* Book of Mormon Plates and Records by Grant R. Hardy and Robert E. Parsons

But General Grant may have been self-victimized.

Grant called it prompt, skillful and brilliant.

Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.

The Outing Club also owns a chain of fourteen cabins and several shelters, extending from the Vermont hills, just across the river from the college, through Hanover to the College Grant -- 27,000 acres of wilderness 140 miles north up in the logging country.

The governor's move into the so-called `` blue law '' controversy came in the form of a letter to Miss Mary R. Grant, deputy city clerk of Central Falls.

Mr. Notte was responding to a resolution adopted by the Central Falls City Council on July 10 and sent to the state house by Miss Grant.

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

Miss Eileen Grant is spending several weeks visiting in Florida.

Last two to be added before the book went to press were the marriages of Meredith Jane Cooper, daughter of the Grant B. Coopers, to Robert Knox Worrell, and of Mary Alice Ghormley to Willard Pen Tudor.

Grant all this -- still, when modern Unitarianism and the Harvard Divinity School recall with humorous affection the insults Parker lavished upon them, or else argue that after all Parker received the treatment he invited, they betray an uneasy conscience.

Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865.

At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.

Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, " I can't spare this man.

" With Grant in command, Lincoln felt the Union Army could relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters, and have a top commander who agreed on the use of black troops.

Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was.

He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.

Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

The Confederacy lacked reinforcements, so Lee's army shrank with every battle, forcing it back to trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, where Grant began a siege.

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.