Born: 27 April 1822 · Died: 23 July 1885 · Age at death: 63
How old was Ulysses S. Grant when he died?
Ulysses S. Grant died aged 63. He was born on 27 April 1822 and died on 23 July 1885.
Union general who won the American Civil War and became the 18th US President, fighting the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction
Did you know?His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but a clerical error at West Point resulted in the middle initial he used thereafter.
Quick facts
Date of birth27 April 1822
Date of death23 July 1885
Age at death63
Cause of deathLaryngeal cancer
NationalityAmerican
BirthplacePoint Pleasant, United States
Occupationexplorer, writer, statesperson
Editor's Take:
Grant is a story of quiet determination winning out. Before the Civil War he had failed at business and left the army, yet within a few years he became the Union's most successful general. His relentless strategy wore down the Confederacy and ended the war. As president he defended the rights of freed slaves and fought the Ku Klux Klan. His memoirs, written while dying, are still praised as some of the finest by any American leader.
Key Milestones
1843: West Point – graduates
1863: Vicksburg – key victory
1864: General-in-chief – commands Union armies
1865: Appomattox – Lee surrenders
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877, and was the Commanding General of the Union Army, leading it to victory in the American Civil War in 1865.
Ulysses S. Grant's birthday is April 27. He was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, United States.
How old was Ulysses S. Grant when he died?
Ulysses S. Grant died on July 23, 1885, aged 63.
Who shares a birthday with Ulysses S. Grant?
Famous people who share Ulysses S. Grant's April 27 birthday include Mary Wollstonecraft, Herbert Spencer, William Alexander of the Netherlands, Edward Gibbon and Samuel Finley Breese Morse.
