In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

His father-in-law was a prominent Democrat in St. Louis, a factor that helped derail Grant's bid to become county engineer in 1859, while his own father was an outspoken Republican in Galena.

Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U. S. presidential election.

Opposing Grant's re-election bid, he joined the Liberal Republican Party in 1872.

He opposed Grant's reelection by supporting the Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley in 1872 and lost his power inside the Republican party.

The Whiskey Ring scandal, along with other alleged abuses of power by the Republican party, contributed to national weariness of Reconstruction, which ended after Grant's presidency with the Compromise of 1877.

Distillers and revenue officers in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and other cities were implicated, and the illicit gains, which in St. Louis alone probably amounted to more than $ 2, 500, 000 in the six years ( 1870 – 1876 ) were divided between the distillers and the revenue officers, who levied assessments on distillers ostensibly for a Republican campaign fund to be used in furthering Ulysses S. Grant's re-election.

All of Grant's appointments, including Hoar's, were initially a shock to the Senate, since Grant chose his cabinet independently from leaders of the Republican Party.

After Grant's speech Republican Congressman James G. Blaine ( 1830-1893 ) proposed the amendment to the federal Constitution.

Through the eight years of President Grant's administration, he stood out as the spokesman of the President and one of the principal leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate.

With the election following the Panic of 1873, Grant's Republican Party was crushed in the elections, losing their majority and almost half their seats to the Democratic Party.

With Grant's administration rocked by a number of scandals ( including a shady deal for gold speculation that led to a crash in the market and several business deals that saw high-ranking governmental officials gain kickbacks ) and Reconstruction winding down, his Republican Party lost seats to the opposition Democratic Party but retained an overall majority.

The Democrats gained 20 seats, but Grant's Republican Party retained a commanding majority in the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War, holding onto a firm legitimacy through an association with victory.

Grant's desire to keep Ohio in the Republican aisle and his attorney general's maneuvering led to a failure to support the Mississippi governor with Federal troops.

They had been playing country music and Western swing for several years when they were hired as the house band on the daily live television show Milt Grant's House Party, a local Washington, D. C. version of American Bandstand.

In 1958, at a live gig of the D. C .- based Milt Grant's House Party, attempting — at the urging of the local crowd — to work up a cover sound-alike for The Diamonds ' hit, " The Stroll ", they came up with an eleven and one half bar blues titled " Rumble " which they first called " Oddball ".

At a special conference 93 % of delegates voted for the ' Open Turn ', although a minority around Ted Grant broke away to form Socialist Appeal and remain in the Labour Party ; Ted Grant's supporters internationally formed the International Marxist Tendency.

The split was caused by the Militant tendency's majority adoption of the ' Open Turn ', Grant's continued support for the tactic of entryism within the Labour Party and what Grant and Woods claimed was the bureaucratic centralist degeneration of Militant's internal regime.

Grant's words encapsulated the conclusion that was being gradually drawn by the members and leadership of the Militant as a result of the changes in the Labour Party in the 1980s – too slowly, Taaffe later argued.

However, Grant's widow Sharon ( who was white ) declared her intention to seek selection and this split opinion within the local Labour Party.

Grant's initial 15, 000 troop strength was increased by 10, 000 reinforcements.

Grant's fame increased throughout the country, and he was promoted to Lieutenant General, a position that had previously been given to George Washington and given to Winfield Scott as a brevet promotion.

Grant's curt response to Johnson in the Stanton matter increased his popularity with the Radical Republicans ; John Weiss Forney, editor of the Washington Daily Chronicle, who had paved the way for previous presidential nominations, took up the effort for Grant's nomination, by first inquiring with Rawlins about Grant's interest in the presidency.

Coming out of Grant's concerns with the changing " stock " of American immigration of the early 20th century ( characterized by increased numbers of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, as opposed to Western and Northern Europe ), Passing of the Great Race was a " racial " interpretation of contemporary anthropology and history, stating race as the basic motor of civilization.

Unguarded ( 1985 ) surprised some fans for its very mainstream sound ( and Grant's leopard-print jacket, in four poses for four different covers ).

In 1890, General Grant's birthplace was removed from its original location, and traveled by boat to be viewed by citizens, along various waterways.

Noted for its mansard roof, ornamental brackets and stone quoins — the interlocking exterior corners — the station is among the few remaining of its kind that were built during President Grant's administration at the height of railway expansion.

In Grant's Vicksburg Campaign, Logan commanded the 3rd Division of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps, which was the first to enter the city of Vicksburg in 1863, and after its capture, Logan served as its military governor.

Directly after capturing Fort Stedman and its artillery, Confederate soldiers would move north and south along the Union lines to clear the neighboring fortifications and make way for the main attack, which would lead to the main Union supply base of City Point ( also Grant's headquarters ), ten miles ( 16 km ) northeast on the Appomattox River.

Under Grant's guidance, the team regained its dominating offensive style.

These campaigns were characterized by another strategic notion of Grant's — deny the enemy the supplies needed to continue the war by widespread destruction of its factories and farms along the paths of the invading Union armies.

During these early years, Lyon gradually developed her vision for Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which would resemble Grant's schools in many respects but, Lyon hoped, draw its students from a wider socioeconomic range.

Wakley responded to Grant's support for the Lancet and its radical programme with fulsome praise of Grant, and printed the text of all 60 lectures of Grant's comparative anatomy course in the Lancet for 1833-4.

The band's biggest Canadian hit was " One Life " in 1995, although it also achieved moderate international success with its self-titled 1997 album featuring " Dance with the Devil " and a cover of Eddy Grant's " Electric Avenue.

Among the monuments, sights and institutions along its route are the Eleanor Roosevelt statue by Penelope Jencks, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Anna Hyatt Huntington's Joan of Arc, the Fireman's Memorial at 100th Street ( a focus of spontaneous dedications of flowers and teddy bears after 9 / 11 ) Grant's Tomb, The Interchurch Center, Riverside Church, Sakura Park, Riverbank State Park, Trinity Church Cemetery, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Fort Washington Park.

Its biggest hit, " The Coloring Song ," reached the top position on three Christian radio charts simultaneously, and at its peak, the band's tours rivaled Amy Grant's in popularity among Christian audiences.

At the time of its release, Beat the System was the biggest Christian rock record ever recorded and the third-biggest Christian album of the 1980s ( trailing only Amy Grant's Age to Age and Sandi Patti's Songs From the Heart ).

Many of its units were transferred to the Army of the Potomac during Grant's Overland Campaign.

If any doubts remained as to the Union cavalry's equality with its Southern counterparts, they were dispelled during Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign.

However, the arrival of Grant's infantry — the Union V Corps — stopped the advance in its tracks.

But Hampton had held up the Union cavalry for seven hours, prevented it from achieving its reconnaissance objectives, and had provided valuable intelligence to General Lee about disposition of Grant's army.

As Grant's time in Hawaii grew, in addition to studying the cultures and geography of Hawaii and its inhabitants, he began to grow interested in the myths and legends both already present and brought in by other cultures.

Grant's Canal has national significance as part of Vicksburg National Military Park and because its construction comprised military activity that had an observable influence on the direction and conduct of the Vicksburg campaign.

The song, which was Grant's latest Hot 100 hit, did not appear on its soundtrack.

The road gave its name to Eddy Grant's 1982 single " Electric Avenue ", which reached # 2 on both the UK and U. S. singles charts.