Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | |  George Wrenshall Dent (1819-1899) — BornJanuary30, 1819.Miner;member ofCaliforniastate senate, 1858; appraiser of customs at the port of SanFrancisco.Died in Lorin (now part of Berkeley),AlamedaCounty, Calif.,January17, 1899 (age79 years, 352days).Interment atCypressLawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.  | Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) — also known asUlysses S. Grant;Hiram Ulysses Grant;"Savior of the Union";"Lion ofVicksburg";"The Austerlitz of AmericanPolitics";"Unconditional Surrender Grant";"The Galena Tanner";"The SilentSoldier";"The Silent General" —of Galena,Jo DaviessCounty, Ill.Born in Point Pleasant,ClermontCounty, Ohio,April27, 1822.Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War;Presidentof the United States, 1869-77; candidate for Republicannomination for President,1880.Methodist.Scottishancestry. Member,LoyalLegion.Elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1900.Died ofthroatcancer, at Mt. McGregor,SaratogaCounty, N.Y.,July 23,1885 (age63 years, 87days).Interment atGeneralGrant Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y.| |  Relatives: Sonof Jesse Root Grant and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; married,August22, 1848, toJuliaBoggs Dent (sister-in-law ofAlexanderSharp; sister ofGeorgeWrenshall Dent andLewisDent); father ofFrederickDent Grant andUlyssesSimpson Grant Jr.; grandfather of Nellie Grant (who marriedWilliamPigott Cronan); first cousin twice removed ofAugustusSeymour Porter (1769-1849) andPeterBuell Porter; second cousin once removed ofWilliamAugustus Bird,AugustusSeymour Porter (1798-1872),PeterBuell Porter Jr. andPeterAugustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin four times removed ofBenjaminHuntington; third cousin ofPeterAugustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin twice removed ofJabezHuntington,JohnDavenport,JoshuaCoit,JamesDavenport,HenryHuntington,GurdonHuntington,SamuelLathrop,AbelHuntington andWilliamRush Merriam; third cousin thrice removed ofSamuelHuntington andHenryScudder; fourth cousin once removed ofJedediahHuntington,EbenezerHuntington,TheodoreDavenport,BenjaminNicoll Huntington,JesseMonroe Hatch,FranklinDelano Roosevelt,FrancisWatkinson Cole andWarrenDelano Robbins. | | | | Political family:Grantfamily of San Francisco, California (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:HoracePorter —AyresPhillips Merrill —RobertMartin Douglas —ThomasL. Hamer —JamesArkell —JosephD. Webster | | | | Grant counties inArk.,Kan.,La.,Minn.,Neb.,N.M.,N.Dak.,Okla.,Ore.,S.Dak.,Wash. andW.Va. arenamed for him. | | | | Other politicians named for him:UlyssesG. Owings—UlyssesG. Argetsinger—UlyssesG. Scalley—U. S.G. Cherry—UlyssesG. Palmer—UlyssesS. G. Bieber—UlyssesG. Denman—UlyssesG. Crandell—UlyssesS. G. Blakely—S. U.G. Rhodes—UlyssesG. Borden—U.Grant Mengel—UlyssesG. Foster—U.S. Balentine—UlyssesG. Byers—U.Grant Burch, Jr.—U.S. Grant Leverett | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappears on the U.S. $50 bill, and also appeared on $1 and $5silver certificates in 1887-1927. | | | | Personal motto: "When in doubt,fight." | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about Ulysses S. Grant: JeanEdward Smith,Grant —Frank J. Scaturro,PresidentGrant Reconsidered — William S. McFeely,Grant —Brooks D. Simpson,UlyssesS. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 — BrooksD. Simpson,LetUs Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War andReconstruction, 1861-1868 — James S. Brisbin,Thecampaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and SchuylerColfax — Josiah Bunting III,UlyssesS. Grant — Michael Korda,UlyssesS. Grant : The Unlikely Hero — Edward H. Bonekemper,AVictor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked MilitaryGenius — Harry J. Maihafer,TheGeneral and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, andCharles Dana — H. W. Brands,TheMan Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War andPeace — Charles Bracelen Flood,Grant'sFinal Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year —Joan Waugh,U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth — Mike Resnick,ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Critical books about Ulysses S. Grant:Nathan Miller,Star-SpangledMen : America's Ten Worst Presidents | | | | Fiction about Ulysses S. Grant: NewtGingrich & William R. Forstchen,GrantComes East — Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen,NeverCall Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
| | Lewis Dent (1823-1874) — ofSanFrancisco, Calif.Born inSt.Louis, Mo.,March 3,1823.Lawyer;circuit judge in California; elected 1850; candidate forGovernor ofMississippi, 1869.Died inWashington,D.C.,March22, 1874 (age51 years, 19days).Interment atBellefontaineCemetery, St. Louis, Mo. | | Jerome Bunty Chaffee (1825-1886) — also known asJerome B. Chaffee — ofDenver,Colo.Born inNiagaraCounty, N.Y.,April17, 1825.Republican. Member ofColoradoterritorial House of Representatives, 1861-63;Speakerof Colorado Territory House of Representatives, 1863; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Colorado Territory, 1866-68, 1870-72;delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado Territory,1868;Delegateto U.S. Congress from Colorado Territory, 1871-75; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Colorado,1876;U.S.Senator from Colorado, 1876-79;ColoradoRepublican state chair, 1884.One of the founders of the city of Denver. Died in Salem Center,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,March 9,1886 (age60 years, 326days).Interment atOakwoodCemetery, Adrian, Mich. | | Alexander Sharp (1825-1901) — ofSt.Louis, Mo.;Richmond,Va.;Washington,D.C.;SanFrancisco, Calif.Born in Newville,CumberlandCounty, Pa.,July 29,1825.Republican.Physician;postmaster atRichmond,Va., 1865-69.Died inSanFrancisco, Calif.,November2, 1901 (age76 years, 96days).Interment atSanFrancisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif. | | Julia Grant (1826-1902) — also known asJulia Boggs Dent — Born inSt.Louis, Mo.,January26, 1826.FirstLady of the United States, 1869-77.Female.Died inWashington,D.C.,December14, 1902 (age76 years, 322days).Entombed atGeneralGrant Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y. | | Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born inSt.Louis, Mo.,May 30,1850.Army officer; U.S. Minister toAustria-Hungary, 1889-93; New York City Police Commissioner,1894-98; general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.Died, fromthroatcancer,April11, 1912 (age61 years, 317days).Interment atUnited States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.| | Relatives: SonofUlyssesSimpson Grant andJuliaGrant; brother ofUlyssesSimpson Grant Jr.; married,October20, 1874, to Ida M. Honoré; nephew ofGeorgeWrenshall Dent andLewisDent; first cousin thrice removed ofAugustusSeymour Porter (1769-1849) andPeterBuell Porter; second cousin twice removed ofWilliamAugustus Bird,AugustusSeymour Porter (1798-1872),PeterBuell Porter Jr. andPeterAugustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin five times removed ofBenjaminHuntington; third cousin once removed ofPeterAugustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin thrice removed ofJabezHuntington,JohnDavenport,JoshuaCoit,JamesDavenport,HenryHuntington,GurdonHuntington,SamuelLathrop andAbelHuntington; fourth cousin once removed ofWilliamRush Merriam. | | | | Political family:Grantfamily of San Francisco, California (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Epitaph: "Eldest son of General andPresident Ulysses S. Grant." | | | | See alsoU.S. State Dept career summary —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr. (1852-1929) — also known asUlysses S. Grant, Jr.;BuckGrant —of San Diego,San DiegoCounty, Calif.Born in Bethel,ClermontCounty, Ohio,July 22,1852.Republican.Lawyer;delegate to Republican National Convention from California,1896(ConventionVice-President),1900;Republican Presidential Elector for California,1905(voted forTheodoreRoosevelt andCharlesW. Fairbanks); Republican Presidential Elector for California,1909(voted forWilliamH. Taft andJamesS. Sherman).Died ofthroatcancer, in the SandbergLodge,Sandberg,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,September25, 1929 (age77 years, 65days).Interment atGreenwoodMemorial Park, San Diego, Calif.| | Relatives: SonofUlyssesSimpson Grant andJuliaGrant; brother ofFrederickDent Grant; married,November1, 1880, to Josephine Chaffee (daughter ofJeromeBunty Chaffee); married,July 12,1913, to America Workman Will; nephew ofGeorgeWrenshall Dent andLewisDent; first cousin thrice removed ofAugustusSeymour Porter (1769-1849) andPeterBuell Porter; second cousin twice removed ofWilliamAugustus Bird,AugustusSeymour Porter (1798-1872),PeterBuell Porter Jr. andPeterAugustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin five times removed ofBenjaminHuntington; third cousin once removed ofPeterAugustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin thrice removed ofJabezHuntington,JohnDavenport,JoshuaCoit,JamesDavenport,HenryHuntington,GurdonHuntington,SamuelLathrop andAbelHuntington; fourth cousin once removed ofWilliamRush Merriam. | | | | Political family:Grantfamily of San Francisco, California (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | William Pigott Cronan (1879-1929) — also known asWilliam P. Cronan — of San Diego,San DiegoCounty, Calif.Born in New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn.,March 6,1879.Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War;Governor ofGuam, 1916.Died in La Jolla,San DiegoCounty, Calif.,March18, 1929 (age50 years, 12days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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