April 27, 2022, marks the 200th anniversary of Grant’s birth. The Ulysses S. Grant Association, which operates the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, maintains a website at this link with helpful information regarding observances of the Grant bicentennial throughout 2022.
The Grant Monument Association encourages everyone to help celebrate the memory of President Ulysses S. Grant and to further education on his life and legacy. Toward those ends, we also call upon the general public to support the following measures:
By Grant’s 200th birthday, Congress should pass the Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial Recognition Act which authorizes and requests the appointment of Grant posthumously as “General of the Armies of the United States,” the Army’s highest rank, as was done for George Washington for the nation’s bicentennial in 1976. Please contact your House member and senators and request their support of this legislation in time for Grant’s birthday on April 27, 2022. The text of this bill is available here.
Read proclamations and special messages from across the country commemorating Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th birthday.
The bicentennial is an occasion to rally for the proper care and recognition of sites across the country and abroad relating to Ulysses S. Grant. The Grant sites initiative can be divided into three parts: (1) proper care of established sites, (2) memorializing unmarked sites, and (3) proposing new memorials to Grant, including locations that should be named for him:
If you have ideas or would like to offer your support to advance this initiative, please contact the GMA
As occurred in 1922 for the centennial of Grant’s birth and more recently for the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, a commemorative coin should be struck with congressional approval.
Besides serving a commemorative purpose, proceeds from its sale should be used to defray the cost of maintenance and operations of Grant’s Tomb and other sites related to Grant’s life and public career.
The U.S. Postal Service should issue Grant bicentennial postage stamps—ideally a set of four showing Grant at different stages of life, which was the format adopted for Lincoln stamps issued in 2009 for the bicentennial of his birth. We encourage the general public to write the Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee recommending that the Postal Service issue Grant bicentennial stamps in 2022. The Committee’s address is as follows:
Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300
Washington, DC 20260-3501