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Ulysses S. Grant Suite is located on the first floor
and on the north, or front, side of the Inn with a beautiful view of
the front yard.
Grant is set
with a Queen and Full beds, private entrance in-room private bath with
a shower, cable TV and phone for local calls. |
Grant was the 18th President of the United States and served two
terms from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1877. He was chosen as the
Republican presidential candidate at the Republican National
Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on May 20, 1868, with no real
opposition. In his letter of acceptance to the party, Grant concluded
with "Let us have peace," which became the Republican campaign slogan.
In the general election that year, he won against former New York
Governor Horatio Seymour with a slim majority of 3,012,833 out of a
total of 5,716,082 votes cast, but by a commanding 214 Electoral
College votes to 80. When he entered the White House he was
politically inexperienced and, at age 46, the youngest man yet elected
president. He easily won reelection by a wide margin in 1872 against
Horace Greeley.
Grant's presidency—particularly his second term—was plagued with
scandals, such as the Black Friday gold-speculation financial crisis
in September 1869, the Sanborn Incident at the Treasury, and problems
with U.S. Attorney Cyrus I. Scofield. The most famous scandal was the
Whiskey Ring of 1875, exposed by Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H.
Bristow, in which over $3 million in taxes were defrauded from the
federal government with the aid of high government officials. Orville
E. Babcock, the private secretary to the President, was indicted as a
member of the ring and escaped conviction only because of a
presidential pardon. When it became clear that Babcock was involved in
the scandal, Grant regretted his earlier statement, "Let no guilty man
escape." After the Whiskey Ring, Grant's Secretary of War, William W.
Belknap, was involved in an investigation that revealed that he had
taken bribes in exchange for the sale of Native American trading
posts. Grant foolishly accepted the resignation of Belknap; when
Belknap was impeached by Congress for his actions, he escaped
conviction since he was no longer a government official.
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