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Ulysses S. Grant Notes and Facts
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822 at Point Pleasant, Ohio. Point Pleasant is a community east of Cincinnati on the Ohio River. Grant’s father, Jesse, was a tanner.
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Abraham Lincoln was now fifty-six years old. At six feet and four inches tall, Lincoln often wore clothes that did not fit just right, he was described as being gawky or awkward. Lincoln had a tenor, falsetto-like voice, and he’d had only one year of formal education. Nothing about Abraham Lincoln would lead people to think this man was a powerful speaker.