The statue’s acceptance and erection spanned five presidencies. In 1877, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill designating Bedloe’s Island, which is federal property, as the statue’s site.

Ulysses S. Grant Statue: Then and Now . U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant first met Anthony as a Union Army general in 1863, and they remained close throughout Grant’s two-term presidency (1869–1877) ...

The man who "sold" The Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, and Ulysses Grant's tomb In the late 1800s, an Irish-American conman preyed on immigrants by "selling" popular tourist attractions that ...

The commission subsequently pinpointed 41 statues it deemed problematic, including statues of four presidents: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley.

Hundreds of protesters surrounded the Christopher Columbus statue July 2020 in Grant Park. Alexander Gouletas ... the General John Logan monument in Grant Park, the Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin ...

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady’s bronze statue of a solemn General Grant atop his horse Cincinnati sits at one end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., facing the ...

On April 27, 1822, Hiram Ulysses Grant was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio. He crushed the Confederacy as general and the Ku Klux Klan as president, yet he’s denigrated for a quirk of fate: He owned a ...

Among those who spoke at the landmark Grant equestrian statue are Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) and Grant biographer Ronald White. To mark the 200th anniversary of Ulysses Grant's birth, ...

Anne Marshall, associate professor in the MSU Department of History, has been named executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the U.S. Grant Presidential Library. Both are housed in ...

Then-President Ulysses S. Grant was initially indifferent about the project, per CNN, but he approved Bartholdi’s 1875 request to erect the statue on Bedloe’s Island, now known as Liberty Island.

US President and former Union General Ulysses S. Grant initially met his proposal with indifference, according to Kaspi. Related article The Statue of Liberty: A beacon of freedom ...