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An 8 page research paper on the Grant administration. Discusses the Union Pacific Railroad scandal and the Whiskey Scandal and gives a view of Grant as being guilty only by asociation of the corruption which is often associated with his administration. Bibliography lists four sources.
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his own memoirs, and serve two terms as the President of the United States. While in the military he would gain fame as the man who taught the army
how to fight (Perret, 1997). His time as president of the United States, however, is not remembered so fondly. Some claim that his terms in office were replete
with scandal and corruption than any other president in U.S. history(http://library.advanced.org/12587/contents/personalities/ugrant/usg.html). Others, however, claim that Grants administration was simply misunderstood.
Grants early life gave little hint of the man he was to become. He was born in Georgetown Ohio on April 27, 1822 to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah
Simpson Grant (http://library.advanced.org/12587/contents/personalities/ ugrant/usg.html). His father both farmed and was foreman in a tannery. Grant would follow him into both occupations as a child and teenager. His
preference for work, however, was on the farm and he delighted in working with horses. Grant had five brothers and sisters http://library.advanced.org/12587/contents/ personalities/ugrant/
usg.html). His early life was filled with events that were typical of farm boys of the time. His path through life was soon to change, however. When
he was seventeen his father, evidently sensing the need for a change in direction, enrolled him in the military academy at West Point with the help of U.S. Congressman Thomas
L. Hamer of Ohio (http://library.advanced. org/12587/contents/personalities/ugrant/usg.html). It was at West Point where Grant caught his first taste of military life. Although he enjoyed the study, he detested the
drill and routine of a soldier. Grants first day at West Point was in May of 1839 (http://library.advanced.org/ 12587/contents/personalities/ugrant/usg.html). It was here
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