Ulysses S. Grant was elected in November of 1868 and served two full terms, departing from office on March 4, 1877. Andrew Johnson served the first two months of 1868.
Grant was elected a second time in November of 1872.
He was elected in the year 1868.Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th President of the United States in 1869, serving a second term and leaving office in 1877.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant After Abraham Lincoln won in 1860 and 1864, Ulysses S. Grant won in 1868 and 1872. However, although never elected President, Andrew Johnson was U. S. President after Lincoln and before Grant (1865-1869).
Grant was nominated for president by the Republican party in 1868 and again in 1872.
Rutherford Bircham Hayes was the 19th US President and the 29th and 32nd Governor of Ohio.
Grant was the president in 1870. He took office in March of 1869 and was re-elected in 1872.
Andrew Johnson was not a candidate for President in 1868, when his succession of Lincoln's term was ending. He returned to Tennessee and ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate in 1868 and for the US House in 1872. He was elected a Senator in 1874, only to die a year later. At the time of his succession, there was no law enabling selection of a replacement Vice President. That process was not implemented until the 25th Amendment a century later in 1967.
The 22th (and 24th) US President was Democrat Grover Cleveland, elected in 1884 and in 1892. Although Vice President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, succeeded to the Presidency on the death of Abraham Lincoln, the next four Presidents were Republicans: Ulysses S. Grant, elected in 1868 and 1872 (18th President) Rutherford B. Hayes, elected 1876 (19th President) James Garfield, elected 1880 (20th President) Checter A. Arthur, succeeded Garfield (21st President)
In the south most of the new black voters were Republicans and the many of the whites were not yet allowed to vote. In the North, the Democratic party which had split when the Civil War broke, was still not fully organized, so the Republicans had a great advantage. U.S. Grant was a national hero and tremendously popular for winning the long costly war.
In 1872, Hayes lost his run for a seat in Congress. In 1876 he was elected President.
Ulysses S. Grant served 8 years or two full terms as US president from March 4, 1869 until March 4, 1877.Grant was first elected in November, 1868, and became the 18th President of the United States. Grant was a Republican.