Former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant dies in Wilton, New York 130 years ago this hour (July 23 1885)


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(Tuesday, July 23, 1885, 8:06 a.m. local time)Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) and Commanding General of the Union Army during the American Civil War, died today at a cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in Wilton, New York, of throat cancer only days after completing this memoir. He was 63.


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