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unusual facts about James P. Grant



Adele C. Howells

When Hinckley unexpectedly died in 1943, Howells was chosen by LDS Church president Heber J. Grant as Hinckley's successor.

Albert Grant

Albert W. Grant (1856–1930), admiral of the United States Navy during World War I

Alexander S. Johnson

In October 1875, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant Circuit Judge of the Second U. S. Judicial Circuit.

Alfred McCune Home

Prior to moving to Los Angeles, they donated it to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the intent that it be used as an official residence for President Heber J. Grant.

Battle of Sailor's Creek

Most Confederates surrendered, including generals Ewell, Kershaw, Custis Lee, Seth M. Barton, James P. Simms, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr., Dudley M. Du Bose, Eppa Hunton, and Montgomery D. Corse.

Benjamin F. Isherwood

After the presidential inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, Isherwood's longtime patron, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, could no longer protect him.

Benjamin R. Cowen

From 1871 to 1876 he was assistant secretary of the interior under President Grant.

Brightest and Best

It can be sung to a number of tunes, including "Morning Star" by James P. Harding and "Epiphany" by Joseph Thrupp.

Bruce Chadwick

Chadwick’s newest books are 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (Sourcebooks, 2008), about the causes of the Civil War.

Colorado Ranger

The original foundation ancestors of the Colorado Ranger were two stallions brought to the United States and given to US president Ulysses S. Grant by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1878.

Democracy: An American Novel

In a 1961 foreword to the novel, Henry D. Aiken states that the U.S. president of the novel "bears some resemblance to Andrew Johnson, to Garfield, and to Grant".

Faugh A Ballagh

A variant transliteration of the motto, 'Faj an Bealac!' was inscribed on the regimental colors of the (Federal) 7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, the "Irish Seventh", which fought in the Civil War's Western Theater as part of Grant and Sherman's Army of the Tennessee.

Frank Cowan

He worked for Johnson for the next year and a half, then opened his own law practice in Washington after Ulysses S. Grant succeeded Johnson.

Geoffrey Perret

He has published over thirteen books dealing with a variety of topics, among them the U.S. Presidency - including several biographies of iconic Presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Ulysses S. Grant - leading American military commanders such as Douglas MacArthur, and pivotal American military engagements.

Gerry Healy

In 1953, Healy joined the split in the Fourth International instigated by James P. Cannon and was soon nominal leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

Holbrooke Hotel

Several notable people stayed at the hotel including “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Lotta Crabtree, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bret Harte, Jack London, Lola Montez, Emma Nevada, Mark Twain, and five US Presidents: Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Herbert Hoover.

Hugh L. Nichols

In 1922, Nichols was appointed chairman of the U. S. Grant Memorial Centenary Association, which directed the restoration of the Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and directed the state to acquire it.

James Duffy

James P.B. Duffy (1878–1969), former U.S. Congressman from New York

James G. Batterson

He joined forces with Elizabeth Colt to make the Wadsworth Atheneum a free public institution; on 16 October 1880, he was honored at the Atheneum by ex-President Ulysses S. Grant for his contributions to historic preservation.

James Holland

James P. Holland (1865–1941), president of the New York State Federation of Labor, 1916–1926

James P. Carrell

"Harmony Grove" is now the tune most associated with the John Newton hymn "Amazing Grace", and for many years Carrell and Clayton were credited as the composers.

James P. Lucier

James P. Lucier, is an author, and was a staff member of the United States Senate for 25 years, and was a former staff director for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

James P. Maher

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses).

Maher was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1921).

James P. Pope

Born in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Pope graduated from Louisiana Industrial Institute (now Louisiana Tech University) in 1906 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909.

In 1938, he was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary by Congressman D. Worth Clark of Pocatello, who went on to win the general election.

James P. Springer

James P. Springer served as a member of the 1859-1860 California State Assembly, representing the 3rd District.

James P. Ulm

After the completion of his training, he was stationed at McChord AFB.

James Womack

James P. Womack, research director of the International Motor Vehicle Program

John H. Brinton

He served in the capacity of a brigadier surgeon in the American Civil War, later as a member of General Ulysses S. Grant's staff.

Lorenzo Sawyer

In December of that year, as the term of Chief Justice Sawyer was about to expire, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated him to the United States circuit court for the Ninth Circuit (which later became the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).

Louis Mazetier

Although Dr. Mazetier is influenced by earlier jazz pianists, such as Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Don Ewell, Johnny Guarnieri, Dick Wellstood, and Art Tatum, his greatest influence appears to be the American stride pianist, Donald Lambert, 1904 - 1962.

Mo Rothman

While abroad, United States Attorney General James P. McGranery revoked Chaplin's re-entry permit and would not allow him to return to the United States.

Nathaniel Shipman

In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant named Shipman as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Pete Peterson

He defeated James W. Grant, a politician who grew unpopular after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the middle of his second term.

Port Gibson, Mississippi

Port Gibson was the site of several clashes during the American Civil War and figured in Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.

Robert J. Grant

Before becoming Director of the U.S. Mint, Grant was the Superintendent of the Denver Mint.

Rodney A. Grant

He has also appeared in other films such as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Wild Wild West, Geronimo: An American Legend, White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf, Wagons East!, The Substitute, War Party, and Powwow Highway.

He has also had guest roles in a television series such as Due South, Two, and the Stargate SG-1 episode "Spirits".

Saint Croix-Vanceboro Railway Bridge

The first railway bridge over the St. Croix River at this location was opened in October 1871 by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar on the completion of the European and North American Railway (E&NA) between Bangor, Maine and Saint John, New Brunswick.

The Crimson Petal and the White

The adaptation's cast includes Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Richard E. Grant, Shirley Henderson, Amanda Hale, Mark Gatiss, Tom Georgeson and Liz White; it was adapted by Lucinda Coxon and directed by Marc Munden.

Thomas Jenckes

President Ulysses S. Grant then signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870.

Tokyo Sogensha

It and its spin-off Sōgen SF Bunko since 1991, are Japan's oldest existing sci-fi bunkobon label, publishing over 600 books until April 2013 including the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Lois McMaster Bujold, Vernor Vinge, James P. Hogan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Charles Wilson, and Greg Egan.

United States Military Railroad

At the conclusion of the Overland Campaign in 1864, LTG Grant directed MG Meade to transfer his Army of the Potomac to the south side of the James River in effort to capture the Confederate rail center of Petersburg and sever Richmond’s supply lines.

United States presidential election in California, 1872

California narrowly voted for the Republican incumbent, Ulysses S. Grant, over the Liberal Republican nominee, New York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley.

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

In 1856, the botanist George Bentham (who lived at Pontrilas) was an honorary member, as were the geologists the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, William Henry Fitton, Leonard Horner, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. John Phillips, and the Rev. Prof. Adam Sedgwick, the botanist John Lindley, the naturalist Sir William Jardine, and the zoologist Prof. Robert E. Grant.


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