Frederick Dent Grant
Frederick Dent Grant (born May 30, 1850 in St. Louis , Missouri , † April 12, 1912 on Governors Island , New York ) was an American general and police officer and envoy of the United States of America in Austria-Hungary . He was the eldest son of US President Ulysses S. Grant .
childhood
The father was a member of the US Army when Julia Grant gave birth to the boy. The child was named Tracy Dent after his uncle, Frederick. When the father was transferred to Michigan and New York, the family followed him. While the father was stationed on the west coast, Frederick spent his early childhood in the house of his paternal grandparents. After the father left the service, the family lived in St. Louis and Galena , Illinois . The boy attended the state school in Galena until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. The father set up a volunteer regiment and became its commander. The boy accompanied the father when his regiment was sent to northern Missouri , but was sent home on arrival. As the war continued, he visited his father on a number of campaigns.
Early military career
Grant was appointed to the West Point Military Academy in 1866 . As a 1870 dispute over the approval of the first African American cadet James Webster Smith broke out, who spoke philanthropist David Clark in the White House in the presence of Grants at his father before, to work towards the completion of harassment to which Smith was suspended at West Point. Grant denied being one of the leaders of the racist tormentors of Smith, but racially argued that no African American would ever graduate from West Point. He completed his training at West Point in 1871, was assigned to the 4th U.S. Cavalry Regiment and took leave to work for the Union Pacific Railroad as a civil engineer . In late 1871 he was aide-de-camp for General William Tecumseh Sherman in Europe. In 1872 he was transferred back to the 4th Cavalry Regiment in Texas .
In 1873 Grant was assigned to General Philip Sheridan's staff and promoted to lieutenant colonel. He took part in the Yellowstone expedition and in 1874 accompanied George Armstrong Custer on his expedition to the Black Hills .
In the same year he married in Chicago Ida Marie Honore (1854-1930), the daughter of the Chicago land dealer Henry Honoré. The marriage resulted in the children Julia Dent Grant and Ulysses S. Grant III in 1876 and 1881. Grant was given leave to attend the birth of his daughter in Washington, DC , so he avoided the Battle of Little Bighorn in which Custer and soldiers from five companies of the 7th Cavalry Regiment were killed.
Grant took a leave of absence in 1877 to accompany his father on a trip around the world. In 1878 he took part in the Bannock War against the Bannock and northern Shoshone tribes, as well as in the battle against Victorio in New Mexico .
Civil career
Grant resigned from the army in 1881, then helped his father with the preparatory work on his memoirs and was doing business in New York City during this time . In the state-wide elections in New York in 1887, he ran as a Republican candidate for the office of Secretary of State , but suffered a defeat by the Democrat Frederick Cook .
In 1889 President Benjamin Harrison sent Grant as envoy to Austria-Hungary , where he succeeded Alexander Lawton . After Grover Cleveland was elected President, he was allowed to continue. Grant resigned from office in 1893. He became Chief of Police in New York the following year and remained in that position, side by side with Theodore Roosevelt from 1895 until 1898.
Later military career
Grant was promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898 as Commander of the 14th New York Volunteer Regiment . He served in Puerto Rico . He took part in the Philippine-American War in 1899 and stayed in the Philippines until 1902 . In 1901 he was promoted to brigadier general in the regular army.
Grant held various commands on his return to the United States and was promoted to major general in 1906 .
He died of cancer as commander of the Eastern Division of the US Army, which included the Eastern and Gulf Coast Defense Areas, and is buried in West Point Cemetery.
literature
- The National Cyclopædia of American Biography . Vol. XV. James T. White & Co., New York 1916, pp. 93-94.
Individual evidence
- ^ William S. McFeely: Grant: A Biography . Norton, 2002, pp. 375-376
- ↑ a b c d e GEN. GRANT THIS IN HOTEL HERE. The New York Times , April 12, 1912, accessed November 15, 2010 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grant, Frederick Dent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American policeman, soldier and envoy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1912 |
| Place of death | Governors Island , New York |