|First Lady of the United States| March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877
|Preceded by||Eliza McCardle Johnson| |Succeeded by||Lucy Webb
Hayes| |Born||Julia Boggs Dent January 26, 1826 St. Louis,
Missouri, U.S. |Died||December 14, 1902 Edgerton, Wisconsin,
U.S. |Spouse(s)||Ulysses S. Grant| |Relations||Frederick Tracy
Dent (brother)| |Children||Frederick Dent Grant Ulysses S.
Grant, Jr. Ellen Wrenshall Grant Jesse Root Grant
|Occupation||First Lady of the United States| Born Julia Boggs
Dent at White Haven plantation west of St. Louis, Missouri, the
daughter of Colonel Frederick Dent, a slaveholding planter and
merchant, and Ellen Wrenshall-Dent, Julia was rather plain in
appearance and squinted through crossed eyes. In memoirs
prepared late in life—unpublished until 1975—she pictured her
girlhood as an idyll: "one long summer of sunshine, flowers, and
smiles". She attended the Misses Mauros' boarding school in St.
Louis for seven years among the daughters of other affluent
parents. She excelled in art and voice. A soc