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Republican Ulysses S. Grant is elected president and defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour in the run to become president of the United States.
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President Ulysses S. Grant is reelected to a second term as president of the United States.
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The collapse of Jay Cooke and Company, a Philadelphia investment bank, triggered a nationwide financial panic.
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A federal grand jury indicts President Ulysses S. Grant's personal secretary, for conspiring to defraud the United States government of tax revenues.
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Republican James Garfield is elected president of the United States
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President James Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881 he later died on the 19th of September that year.
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U.S. Steel is chartered by the state of New Jersey.
