
11/01/2023
Along with the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, Ulysses S. Grant is one of a handful of presidents who used a middle initial in his formal written name. But that distinguished "S" is actually an accident. As a young man, the story goes, Grant—whose given name was Hiram Ulysses Grant—was seeking admission to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. When his congressman nomina