What was Ulysses S. Grant's profession?

Answer 1

Grant spent most of his life as an army officer. He dropped out of the army for awhile and tried his luck at farming and other business pursuits. He was not very successful, so when the Civil War began, he got back into the army, rose in the ranks and ended as the supreme commander who won the war for the North. That achievement is what made him president.

Answer 2

Ulysses S. Grant was a General in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War, and he was the first U.S. President elected after the war.

(He was also the youngest U.S. president until that time and is still the 4th-youngest president in U.S. history, after Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.)

Answer 3

After having dismissed from the Army in 1854, he worked as a clerk in his father's leather shop.