Youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Dent Grant.
Jesse Root Grant II was an American politician, lawyer, accomplished mining engineer, studied engineering at Cornell University and also attended Columbia Law School before settling in California. In addition to practicing law, he was involved in several mining ventures as an engineer, stockholder, board of directors member and corporate officer. For several years he managed his brother Ulysses Jr.'s U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego. In the 1890s, he helped to develop Tia Juana, now Tijuana, Mexico, as a gambling resort. Grant joined the Democratic party and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1908, quixotically sought the party nomination for President, running against William Jennings Bryan, though he was not considered a viable contender.
In 1925, he wrote a biography of his father, 'In the Days of My Father General Grant, ' as
the youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. He had 2 children with his first wife, Elizabeth Mary Chapman-Ellen 'Nellie' and Chapman before they divourced 1918. Later at age 60 on August 26 1918 he married Lillian Burns Wilkins age 41 years, widow of J. Anthony Wilkins of Rotterdam, Holland.
Jesse Root Grant II was an American politician, lawyer, accomplished mining engineer, studied engineering at Cornell University and also attended Columbia Law School before settling in California. In addition to practicing law, he was involved in several mining ventures as an engineer, stockholder, board of directors member and corporate officer. For several years he managed his brother Ulysses Jr.'s U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego. In the 1890s, he helped to develop Tia Juana, now Tijuana, Mexico, as a gambling resort. Grant joined the Democratic party and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1908, quixotically sought the party nomination for President, running against William Jennings Bryan, though he was not considered a viable contender.
In 1925, he wrote a biography of his father, 'In the Days of My Father General Grant, ' as
the youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. He had 2 children with his first wife, Elizabeth Mary Chapman-Ellen 'Nellie' and Chapman before they divourced 1918. Later at age 60 on August 26 1918 he married Lillian Burns Wilkins age 41 years, widow of J. Anthony Wilkins of Rotterdam, Holland.
Youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Dent Grant.
Jesse Root Grant II was an American politician, lawyer, accomplished mining engineer, studied engineering at Cornell University and also attended Columbia Law School before settling in California. In addition to practicing law, he was involved in several mining ventures as an engineer, stockholder, board of directors member and corporate officer. For several years he managed his brother Ulysses Jr.'s U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego. In the 1890s, he helped to develop Tia Juana, now Tijuana, Mexico, as a gambling resort. Grant joined the Democratic party and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1908, quixotically sought the party nomination for President, running against William Jennings Bryan, though he was not considered a viable contender.
In 1925, he wrote a biography of his father, 'In the Days of My Father General Grant, ' as
the youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. He had 2 children with his first wife, Elizabeth Mary Chapman-Ellen 'Nellie' and Chapman before they divourced 1918. Later at age 60 on August 26 1918 he married Lillian Burns Wilkins age 41 years, widow of J. Anthony Wilkins of Rotterdam, Holland.
Jesse Root Grant II was an American politician, lawyer, accomplished mining engineer, studied engineering at Cornell University and also attended Columbia Law School before settling in California. In addition to practicing law, he was involved in several mining ventures as an engineer, stockholder, board of directors member and corporate officer. For several years he managed his brother Ulysses Jr.'s U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego. In the 1890s, he helped to develop Tia Juana, now Tijuana, Mexico, as a gambling resort. Grant joined the Democratic party and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1908, quixotically sought the party nomination for President, running against William Jennings Bryan, though he was not considered a viable contender.
In 1925, he wrote a biography of his father, 'In the Days of My Father General Grant, ' as
the youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. He had 2 children with his first wife, Elizabeth Mary Chapman-Ellen 'Nellie' and Chapman before they divourced 1918. Later at age 60 on August 26 1918 he married Lillian Burns Wilkins age 41 years, widow of J. Anthony Wilkins of Rotterdam, Holland.
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