Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the supreme Union commander in the final years of the Civil War and the 18th president.
There are two statues of him in New York City. Grant is set in the underside of the monumental arch in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, and also as a more traditional statue in Brooklyn’s Grant Park.
Grant was born April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He died July 23, 1885, in Mount McGregor, N.Y. He is buried in Manhattan’s Riverside Park, at the iconic tomb bearing his name. The answer to the question, “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb” is Grant and his wife, Julia. The joke is to say they aren’t buried there, but entombed. (Whatever, that’s just stupid.)
For more about Grant, who obviously is an integral figure in American history, there is this. The party line can be found here.
