Ulysses Grant Dietz is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. He is on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.
Ulysses grew up in Syracuse, New York. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing, including a book on the White House published in 2009.

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History Talk: Ulysses Grant Dietz

Ulysses S. Grant is known as the victorious Civil War general who saved the Union and the 18th President of the United States. He first met Julia Dent, his future wife, at her family home, named White Haven. From 1854 to 1859 the Dents, Grants and an enslaved African-American workforce lived on the property.

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White Haven in Autumn

view of house from side and back. The house has several additions. Stone summer kitchen on right

White Haven

To the left is the ice house and to right is chicken house.

Outbuildings

Tack Room

Museum Exhibits

Winter at White Haven

View of house from front with budding tree branch in foreground that is also covered in ice.

White Haven in Early Spring

Ulysses S Grant

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site’s hours of operation are 9AM – 5PM, with the last tour of the historic house at 4 pm.

History Talk: Ulysses Grant Dietz

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