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Ulysses S. Grant to be promoted
12-26-2022, 09:34 AM (This post was last modified: 12-26-2022 11:23 PM by David Lockmiller.)
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RE: Ulysses S. Grant to be promoted
(12-25-2022 11:18 PM)Dave B Wrote:  Posthumous honors are more expensive than I thought.

General Grant would have settled for being the mayor of the town in Ohio where he lived. According to Professor Burlingame, "the only office [Grant] wanted was the mayoralty of his hometown so that he could have a sidewalk laid from his house to the train station." (Abraham Lincoln, A Life, Vol. Two, page 628.) [Note: This remark was made in reference to the possibility of his being elected to the office of President of the United States.]

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