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The 'S' is believed to stand for Simpson, which was his mother's maiden name. Some say it didn't stand for anything. It was just put there to indicate 'US', as in Uncle Sam, and also to echo his nickname 'Unconditional Surrender'.

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His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but after a mistake of a senator filling out his paperwork to West Point his name was acknowledged by the US government as Ulysses S. Grant.

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What is Ulysses S. Grant's real name?

Ulysses Simpson Grant was born Hyram Ulysses Grant. He changed it because he preferred U.S. Grant over HUG.


What is Ulysses S. Grant's real name?

Ulysses Simpson Grant was born Hyram Ulysses Grant. He changed it because he preferred U.S. Grant over HUG.


What is Hiram Ulysses S. Grant real name?

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Who was the Great Union General who led his men to victory?

Ulysses S. Grant and his real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.


How did Ulysses S. Grant get his name?

Grant's real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. However, when he was nominated for West Point, the Congressman who nominated him, wrote his name as Ulysses S. Grant, presumably thinking his middle name was Simpson, which was his mother's maiden name. He never corrected his name with West Point, was commissioned as Ulysses S.Grant and that became his official army name. Maybe he did not like is old initials of HUG.


How did his name change to Ulysses S. Grant?

His father asked a senator he knew to fill out the paperwork so Ulysses could go to West Point. Because this senator didn't take time to ask he wrote Ulysses's name down wrong as Ulysses S. Grant. His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.


How did Ulysses S. Grant get his name changed?

His father asked a senator he knew to fill out the paperwork so Ulysses could go to West Point. Because this senator didn't take time to ask he wrote Ulysses's name down wrong as Ulysses S. Grant. His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.


How did Hiram Ulysses S. Grant get his name changed to Ulysses S. Grant?

When he joined the military at West Point the clerk mistakenly wrote that his name was Ulysses S. Grant


How did Ulywsses Grant's name get changed to Ulysses S. Grant?

He was originally Hiram Ulysses Grant, but his family called him Ulysses. Then he enlisted in the war and was registered as Ulysses Simpson Grant , with his mother's maiden name after that he decided to leave it Ulysses S. Grant.


Full name of Ulysses S. Grant?

Hiram Ulysses Grant. It is frequently said that Grant's middle name was "Simpson." It was not. His middle name was "Ulysses" and he admitted that the "S" in his name stood for nothing.


Why did Ulysses S. Grant change his name from Ulysses S. Grant?

His original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He didn't want to or mean to change it. When he went to a military academy, they signed him up as that. Since then, he was known as Ulysses S. Grant.


Which president's first two initials were US?

U.S. Grant is the one. His name was really Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he went to West Point. a mistake was made by the man who nominated him, and he became Ulysses S. Grant. He never bothered to have it changed so his name in the army was Ulysses S. Grant.