Ulysses S. Grant

March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1877

Year

Date

Document Title

1869

March 4, 1869

Grant’s First Inaugural Address

 

April 8, 1869

Grant’s Proclamation for a Special Session of the Senate

 

April 12, 1869

Ex parte McCardle

 

April 12, 1869

State of Texas v. White

 

May 19, 1869

Grant’s Proclamation for an 8-hour Day for U.S. Government Workers

 

October 8, 1869

Grant’s Message on the Death of President Pierce

 

December, 1869

Veazie Bank v. Fenno

 

December 6, 1869

Grant’s First Annual Message to Congress

1870

May 31, 1870

Grant’s Appeal for the Annexation of Santo Domingo

 

December, 1870

Legal Tender Cases

 

December 5, 1870

Grant’s Second Annual Message to Congress

1871

April 3, 1871

Collector v. Day

 

April 20, 1871

Grant’s Proclamation for a Special Session of the Senate

 

May 8, 1871

Treaty of Washington

 

October 14, 1871

White’s “The Great Chicago Fire” {excerpt}

 

December Term 1871

United States v. Klein

 

December 4, 1871

Grant’s Third Annual Message to Congress

1872

March 1, 1872

Yellowstone Act

 

May 1; 1872

Liberal Republicans Party Platform

 

May 23, 1872

Republican Party Platform

 

July 9, 1872

Democratic Party Platform

 

December 2 1872

Grant’s Fourth Annual Message to Congress

1873

February 12, 1873

Coinage Act

 

February 21, 1873

Grant’s Proclamation for a Special Session of the Senate

 

March 4, 1873

Grant’s Second Inaugural Address

 

April 3, 1873

Resolutions of Springfield, Illinois Farmers’ Convention {excerpt}

 

April 14, 1873

Slaughterhouse Cases

 

December 1, 1873

Grant’s Fifth Annual Message to Congress

1874

February 11, 1874

Declaration of Purpose of the National Grange

 

March 9, 1874

Grant’s Message on the Death of President Fillmore

 

March 29, 1875

Minor v. Happersett

 

October, 1874

Citizens’ Savings & Loan Ass’n v. City of Topeka

 

December 7, 1874

Grant’s Sixth Annual Message to Congress

1875

January 13, 1875

Treaty of Reciprocity between the United States of America and the Hawaiian Kingdom

 

January 14, 1875

The Resumption of Specie Payments {excerpt}

 

February 17, 1875

Grant’s Proclamation for a Special Session of the Senate

 

March 1, 1875

Civil Rights Act of 1875

 

July 31, 1875

Grant’s Proclamation on the Death of President Johnson

 

December 7, 1875

Grant’s Seventh Annual Message to Congress

1876

June 16, 1876

Republican Party Platform

 

June 29, 1876

Democratic Party Platform

 

1876

Commonwealth v. Hamilton Manufacturing Company

 

July 5, 1876

Reno’s Report on the Battle of Little Big Horn

 

August 5, 1876

“The Custer Massacre”

 

December 5, 1876

Grant’s Eighth Annual Message to Congress

1877

March 1, 1877

Munn v. Illinois

 

March 2, 1877

Grant’s Proclamation for a Special Session of the Senate

Last updated August 02, 2006