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bbwoof about my previous post,
and I used the example of Ulysses S Grant as a case of someone whose
middle name didn't stand for anything. The person who sits behind my
cubicle wall came around to tell me this story.
"I couldn't help overhearing you talking about Ulysses S. Grant...I
think you were thinking of Harry Truman. Ulysses S. Grant was actually
Hiram Ulysses Grant, but he was never called Hiram; he was known as
Lyss. When he wanted to go to the Academy, he was signed up by someone
who couldn't remember his name correctly but remembered the maiden name
of a grandmother or something and wrote it down as Ulysses S. Grant.
Later he tried to change it but was told, 'The government has your name
as Ulysses S. Grant. If you want to go to the Academy, that's what your
name will always be."
bbwoof about my previous post,and I used the example of Ulysses S Grant as a case of someone whose
middle name didn't stand for anything. The person who sits behind my
cubicle wall came around to tell me this story.
"I couldn't help overhearing you talking about Ulysses S. Grant...I
think you were thinking of Harry Truman. Ulysses S. Grant was actually
Hiram Ulysses Grant, but he was never called Hiram; he was known as
Lyss. When he wanted to go to the Academy, he was signed up by someone
who couldn't remember his name correctly but remembered the maiden name
of a grandmother or something and wrote it down as Ulysses S. Grant.
Later he tried to change it but was told, 'The government has your name
as Ulysses S. Grant. If you want to go to the Academy, that's what your
name will always be."
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Date: 2005-07-28 08:43 pm (UTC)"At the age of 17, Grant received a cadetship to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, through his U.S. Congressman, Thomas L. Hamer. Hamer erroneously nominated him as Ulysses Simpson Grant, and although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the bureaucracy. Upon graduation, Grant adopted the form of his new name with middle initial only, never acknowledging that the 'S' stood for Simpson."