1 dollar. 18th US President. Ulysses S. Grant. 2011

1 dollar. 18th US President. Ulysses S. Grant. 2011

Avers: portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant. Above the portrait, Kant coin - the inscription: "ULYSSES S. GRANT" (Ulysses S. Grant), the bottom of the one-line inscription: "IN GOD WE TRUST" (In God We Trust) "18th PRESIDENT" (eighteenth president) and the period his tenure as president, "1869-1877."

Reverse: the image of the Statue of Liberty, the sculptor of which is Don Everhart, the inscription along the rim - «United States of America», denomination of the coin - 1 $.

Edge: 2011 mint mark (P or D) • E PLURIBUS UNUM • IN GOD WE TRUST

Ulysses Simpson Grant - American commander, General of the Army, the eighteenth President of the United States. In his honor, erected the largest mausoleum in the US, and placed a portrait on a banknote 50 dollars.

Born in 1822 in a modest family. He graduated from the military academy, the officer began to serve in the infantry regiment fought in the war with Mexico. Serving in California, addicted to alcohol, he resigned. He moved to Illinois with his family. For 40 years he was considered a failure, prone to depression, but the Civil War abruptly changed his life.

Having to fight a brigadier general of volunteers of the North, he showed outstanding ability in taking a strategic fort complex was named "General unconditional surrender." During the war, he became a national hero. Historians have written that the main quality of Commander Grant was cool, it was not considered neither with the enemy, nor with their human losses. In the spring of 1865 Grant put an end to the civil war, forcing the Confederate army to surrender.

Wide popularity has allowed him to successfully run and win the presidential election in 1868. Ulysses Grant ruled for two terms, and proved to be a mediocre president. His first tasks were to establish relations with the South, the preservation of paper money and diplomacy on the issue of Alabama. Second presidency was marked by a string of corruption scandals in the Republican administration.

After retirement Grant was forced to make, in particular, writing memoirs, the publication of which helped Mark Twain. Long addicted to smoking - 20 cigars a day - led Grant to cancer. He died at 63 years old, to his 75 anniversary in New York opened a memorial in the form of a magnificent mausoleum neoampirnogo.

Release Date: May 19, 2011