The president responsible for giving America the federal Christmas holiday is getting a day of his own. Beginning next year, April 27 will be Ulysses S. Grant Day in the general’s native Ohio.
— The president responsible for giving America the federal Christmas holiday is getting a special day of his own.
Authorization for the president to promote Grant — introduced by U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, and Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri — was contained in an $858 billion defense spending bill that became law in December. “Personally, I believe Ulysses S. Grant is one of Ohio’s greatest native sons, and I think history is starting to look much differently at his time as president,” Bird said in an interview.
Bird said Grant's home territory was “a hotbed of the Underground Railroad” when the future Union general and 18th U.S. president was young. Bird called Grant “a consequential man in a consequential place.”“President Grant left a legacy that few in history have ever seen,” he said in a statement on the bill's passage.
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