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Ulysses S. Grant’s First Administration
The child born on April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant Ohio, was destined to do great things in the world after he had grown to man’s estate. ... Ulysses S. ...
Grant’s father’s greatest ambitions were to see the success of his children through their education. Grant’s education consisted of attending subscription schools in Georgetown and later Maysville Seminary in Maysville, Kentucky where he lived with relatives (McFeeley 1121). ... He ranked 16th in mathematics and 49th in French in class of 60 members and 147th in conduct in corps of 233 cadets (McFeely 1122) during his first year of college. ... The confusion in the minds of the American people as a result from President Johnson’s quarrel with the Congress, and the procedure to impeach him, had created a situation which called for a popular leader and one of character (Grant 291) to carry on the reconstruction of the recently divided country. In the election of 1868 the people of the United States made Ulysses S. ... ” This agreed perfectly with Grant’s ideas. ... Hoar’s appointment was rejected by the Senate on February 3, 1870, and then the President nominated William Strong and Joseph P. ...
The Fifteenth Amendment was declared ratified on March 30 and the first Enforcement Act on May 31, passed under the enforcement provision of the Fifteenth Amendment (McFeely 1146). ...
Grant asked for Haor’s resignation and named Amos T. ...
Sumner is soon removed from Grant’s administration on Grant’s own account. ... All seceded states were again participating members of the United States before the end of Grant’s first administration (Grant 304).
The Grant Administration soon inherited a problem that had been called “the Alabama Crisis” (Grant 304). ... S. ... In the aftermath of the most serious fiscal problems the nation had ever faced, he pursued policies that stopped inflation, raised the nation’s credit, and reduced taxes and the national debt by over $300 million and $435 million respectively (Scaturro 5). ... Unlike other cases of presidents charged with allowing corruption, the "corruption" that reformers condemned during Grants two terms, for the most part, was merely the practice of making appointments through the spoils system (Scaturro 7). What is ironic about the reformers opposing the presidents corrupt party is that Grant was actually the first president since the establishment of the Jacksonian spoils system to initiate civil service reform (Scaturro 7).
The Credit Mobilier scandal, the “most conspicuous” (Scaturro 9) of the so-called Grant scandals, was in fact only uncovered by the administration. ... “Nowhere else in the American political tradition is a president held accountable for corruption dating back to a previous administration (Scaturro 9). ... No major study of the Grant presidency “makes the connection between the untrustworthiness and utter damage of the reformers accusations” (Scaturro 9) and Grants behavior toward Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin Bristow, who made serious allegations concerning the presidents private secretary, Orville Babcock, without sufficient evidence (Scaturro 9). ... There was more to the reformers than civil service reform, just as there was more to Grants supporters than patronage” (Scaturro 9).
Approximate Word count = 2508
Approximate Pages = 10
(250 words per page double spaced)
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