Hannah Simpson
When he joined the military at West Point the clerk mistakenly wrote that his name was Ulysses S. Grant
He was originally Hiram Ulysses Grant, but his family called him Ulysses. Then he enlisted in the war and was registered as Ulysses Simpson Grant , with his mother's maiden name after that he decided to leave it Ulysses S. Grant.
Hiram Ulysses Grant. It is frequently said that Grant's middle name was "Simpson." It was not. His middle name was "Ulysses" and he admitted that the "S" in his name stood for nothing.
His original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He didn't want to or mean to change it. When he went to a military academy, they signed him up as that. Since then, he was known as Ulysses S. Grant.
U.S. Grant is the one. His name was really Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he went to West Point. a mistake was made by the man who nominated him, and he became Ulysses S. Grant. He never bothered to have it changed so his name in the army was Ulysses S. Grant.
Hiram Ulysses Grant. They say his middle name was Simpson, it was not.
Yes. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant.
When he joined the military at West Point the clerk mistakenly wrote that his name was Ulysses S. Grant
Grant was his last name/
When he joined the military at West Point the clerk mistakenly wrote that his name was Ulysses S. Grant
John F. Kennedy and Ulysses S. Grant are the only two who meet this condition/
Ulysses S. Grant was the name put on his paperwork put into West Point. (The senator that put them in didn't take the time to ask it seems).