Rod has no taste for politics or administration, and is happy to have Grant Cowper, an older college student and born politician, elected " mayor ".

The commencement of the Grant administration was somewhat unorthodox.

The Department of Justice was created during the Grant administration in an effort to centralize under the Attorney General the hiring of lawyers to represent federal agencies.

In the fall of 1866, Seward joined Johnson, as well as Ulysses S. Grant and the General George Armstrong Custer, along with several other administration figures, on the president's ill-fated " Swing Around the Circle " campaign trip.

Grant was already under pressure for his treatment of Custer and his administration worried about failure of the " Sioux campaign " without him.

In September, 1994 the administration was under intense scrutiny over the Community Development Block Grant ( CDBG ) program.

* Barclay White ( 1821 – 1906 ), Superintendent of Indian Affairs during the administration of president Ulysses S. Grant.

* Barclay White ( 1821 – 1906 ), Superintendent of Indian Affairs during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant.

* George M. Robeson, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and United States Secretary of the Navy during the Grant administration.

Weaver became increasingly disenchanted with the Republican Party and the presidential administration of Ulysses S. Grant, viewing it as under the control of big business at the expense of farmers and small businessmen.

Unhappy with the administration of President Ulysses Grant, in 1872 he joined the Liberal-Republican revolt in support of Horace Greeley.

Category: Grant administration controversies

During the Grant administration, while Sheridan was assigned to duty in the West, he was sent to Louisiana on two additional occasions to deal with problems that lingered in Reconstruction.

The Grant administration backed down after an enormous public outcry.

" Mullett-Smith references terms it the " Second Empire or General Grant style " due to its popularity in building government buildings during the Grant administration.

In later life, he was involved in the Black Friday gold scandal in the Grant administration.

It was becoming clear that federal intervention was required to settle the dispute, despite the general policy of the Grant administration to stay out of the affairs of Southern states.

Secretary of the Treasury of the Grant administration George S. Boutwell formally abandoned the contraction policy and embraced the ongoing state of political inertia.

One treaty, signed in 1868, was rejected by the Colombian Senate, which hoped for better terms from the incoming Grant administration.

During the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant ( 1869-1877 ), Brentwood Mansion was a center of Washington social life, with many parties hosted by Elizabeth ( Eliza ) Worthington Patterson ( daughter of Joseph Pearson and his third wife Catherine Worthington Pearson ) and her husband Carlile Pollock Patterson.

On March 12, 1864, after Ulysses S. Grant, Halleck's former subordinate in the West, was promoted to lieutenant general and general in chief, Halleck was relegated to chief of staff, responsible for the administration of the vast U. S. armies.

Her presentation sparked Peter Cooper's interest in Indian issues, and led to the founding of the US Board of Indian Commissioners and the subsequent Peace Policy in the administration of Ulysses S. Grant.

Statehood for the territory was a recurring issue during the Ulysses Grant administration, with Grant advocating statehood against a less willing Congress during Reconstruction.

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

Grant Gale suggested that he apply to the doctoral program in physics at MIT, which he did.

The " S ", according to Grant, did not " stand for anything ", though Hamer had used it to abbreviate his mother's maiden name.

From 1854 to 1858, Grant labored on a Dent family farm near St. Louis, Missouri, using slaves owned by Julia's father, but it did not succeed.

Not only did they avoid panic, but Grant and Sherman actually rallied their troops for a vicious counterattack the next morning.

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.

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

" Though Jewish opinion was mixed, Grant's determination to court Jewish voters ultimately resulted in his capturing the majority of that vote, though Grant did lose some Jewish votes as a result of the order.

Grant did effectively use the military to keep peace during the Election of 1874 in Louisiana, the nation's most highly contested Reconstructed states.

Grant did nothing to prevent the panic and responded slowly after the banks crashed in September.

Grant did not consult with his Cabinet over the issue, and by-passed State Department procedures.

While President Hayes did not seek renomination, former President Ulysses S. Grant ( 1869 – 1877 ) openly sought nomination to a third term.

Frontman Grant Nicholas felt that if they played as Feeder, there would be an uproar that they did not play any of the singles, so used the pseudonym as a hint.

Lytton Strachey became a close friend of the Stephen sisters as did Duncan Grant through his affairs with Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, and Adrian Stephen.

There were two main routes by which Wallace could move his unit to the front, and Grant ( according to Wallace ) did not specify which one he should take.

Despite several instances of double entendre and sexual references, the Hayes Office passed the film and did not notice or recognize such lines of dialogue as Grant saying that he " went gay " or Hepburn making a reference to George urinating.

Having seen the play on Broadway, Cary Grant was keen to play the role of Tony Wendice, but studio chiefs did not feel the public would accept him as a man who arranges to have his wife murdered.

Grant him reward for what he did for me, thy beloved son, the King of Upper-and Lower-Egypt, who has set a precept of worship inside the temple sanctuaries for all men, to the satisfaction of the gods.

It is the only county in South Dakota named for a non-American person and is one of only nine counties in South Dakota named for persons who did not live in South Dakota ( Clay, Custer, Douglas, Grant, Hamlin, Lincoln, McPherson, and Meade are the other eight ).

Grant Road is probably named after General Sir James Hope Grant who commanded a cavalry division at the relief of Lucknow, but a Private P Grant and a Sergeant R Grant both won VCs in the mutiny, as did a Lieutenant C Grant, so further research is needed.

He did remain connected to the film, however, as it was produced by Fabergé's Brut Productions, and Grant was on the board of directors for Fabergé.