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Events on Tuesday 3 November 1868 1
1868Ulysses S. Grant elected presidentUnion war hero wins the US presidencyUlysses S. Grant, commanding general of the Union Army during the Civil War, was elected the eighteenth President of the United States. He ran as a Republican promising to consolidate Reconstruction gains. Grant took office in March 1869.