Gente Importante En Estados Unidos

Ulysses Grant
(April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)
was the 18thPresident of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. UnderGrant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America. Grant began his lifelong career as a soldier after graduating from the United StatesMilitary Academy at West Point in 1843. Fighting in the Mexican–American War, he was a close observer of the techniques of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. He resigned from the Army in 1854,and then struggled to make a living in St. Louis and Galena, Illinois.
After the American Civil War began in April 1861, he joined the Union war effort, taking charge of training new regiments and thenengaging the Confederacy near Cairo, Illinois. In 1862, he fought a series of major battles and captured a Confederate army, earning a reputation as an aggressive general who seized control of mostof Kentucky and Tennessee at the Battle of Shiloh. In July 1863, after a long, complex campaign, he defeated five Confederate armies (capturing one of them) and seized Vicksburg. 
After leavingoffice, Grant embarked on a two-year world tour that was received favorably with many royal receptions. In 1880, he made an unsuccessful bid for a third presidential term. In 1884, broke and dying ofcancer, he wrote his memoirs. Historians have ranked his Administration poorly due to tolerance of corruption. His presidential reputation has improved among scholars who are impressed by theAdministration's support for civil rights for freed slaves.

Abraham Lincoln
(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until hisassassination in 1865. He led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis the American Civil War  preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and...