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.

Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

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

In Sabrina, Billy Wilder, unable to secure Cary Grant, chose Bogart for the role of the older, conservative brother who competes with his younger playboy sibling ( William Holden ) for the affection of the Cinderella-like Sabrina ( Audrey Hepburn ).

* 1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English soldier and explorer ( d. 1892 )

* 1885 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.

* 1895 – William Grant Still, American composer ( d. 1978 )

* Grant, William Newby.

* Davis, William C. Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg ( 1986 ).

During the siege, Grant coordinated a series of devastating campaigns launched by William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, and George Thomas.

Grant met with his senior General, William T. Sherman, who advised he was prepared to attack the Confederate stronghold of equal numbers at Corinth, Mississippi.

As was common practice at the time, Grant remained home in Galena during the campaign, and left most of the active campaigning and speaking on his behalf to his campaign manager William E. Chandler and others.

First, Grant's relationship with his predecessor Johnson had deteriorated badly, culminating with Johnson's appointment of Grant antagonist William Rosecrans as minister to Mexico.

Grant had multiple opportunities to strengthen the Supreme Court with nominations ; biographer, William S. McFeely, considered his appointments not to have benefitted the Court.

In November 1876, President Grant pardoned both William O. Avery and William McKee, who were convicted in connection with the Whiskey Ring tax evasion frauds in St. Louis ; having served six months of their two year sentences.

The Kendall College presidents during 1907-1919 were: Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Lamb, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell.

* May 22 – William Grant Broughton, first Anglican bishop in Australia ( d. 1853 )

* July 1 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer ( d. 1892 )

* January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.

* June 9 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer ( b. 1863 )

* Scotch whisky distiller William Grant & Sons is founded.

* Buckham, Philip Wentworth ; Spence, Joseph ; Holdsworth, Edward ; Warburton, William ; Jortin, John, Miscellanea Virgiliana: In Scriptis Maxime Eruditorum Virorum Varie Dispersa, in Unum Fasciculum Collecta, Cambridge: Printed for W. P. Grant ; 1825.

* Hayes, William, The Progressive Education Movement: Is it Still a Factor in Today ’ s ’ Schools?

William Still, often called " The Father of the Underground Railroad ", helped hundreds of slaves to escape ( as many as 60 a month ), sometimes hiding them in his Philadelphia home.

* William Still

* Hendrick, George, and Willene Hendrick ( 2003 ) Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told by Levi Coffin and William Still.

* Underground Railroad, 1872, by William Still, from Project Gutenberg ( classic book documenting the Underground Railroad operations in Philadelphia )

* The William Still National Underground Railroad Foundation

Still of Allyson Ames and William Shatner, with English subtitles over the French subtitles of the sole film copy found in France.

Still undeterred, Shearer risked some of her savings on a consultation with Dr. William Bates, a pioneer in the treatment of incorrectly aligned eyes and defective vision.

Still from Within Our Gates, portraying the lynching of Jasper Landry ( William Stark ) and his wife ( Mattie Edwards )

The Gilbert Clock Company, located along the Still River north of town, was founded in 1871 by William L. Gilbert ( 1806 ‑ 1890 ) and became one of the largest clock companies in the world at the turn of the century.

* William Grant Still, African American classical composer

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

Still in desperate need of a male heir, the next year he married the 23-year-old Palatine princess Maria Anna of Neuburg, a daughter of Philip William, Elector of the Palatinate, and sister-in-law of his uncle Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

* May 11 – William Grant Still, composer ( died 1978 )

William Grant Still was named arranger and later musical director.

The first generation of abstract expressionists included Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Phillip Guston, Ad Reinhardt, James Brooks, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Mark Tobey, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Jack Tworkov David Smith, and Hans Hofmann, among others.

Handy, where William Grant Still served in an A & R and Repertoire capacity ) and Columbia.

William Grant Still was orchestrator and Fats Waller the pianist as Johnson was contractually obliged to conduct his and Waller's hit Broadway show Keep Shufflin.

" Still, in 1950, when William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon was sent to Ireland as Canada's ambassador to that country, the Cabinet wished to have George VI referred to in the letters of credence as King of Canada.

William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi.

He was the son of two teachers, Carrie Lena Fambro Still ( 1872 – 1927 ) and William Grant Still ( 1871 – 1895 ), who was also a partner in a grocery store and performed as a local bandleader.

His father William Grant Still Sr. died when his infant son was 3 months old.