Julia Dent Grant

Julia Dent Grant's Death

Born (Birthday) January 26, 1826

Death Date December 14, 1902

Age of Death 76 years

Cause of Death Heart And Kidney Failure

Place of Death Washington, D.C., United States

Profession First Lady

The first lady Julia Dent Grant died at the age of 76. Here is all you want to know and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877 while her husband Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President of the United States. Her memoirs were released nearly 75 years after she died.

She moved to Austria-Hungary when her father became a US minister there.

She was the first First Lady to write a memoir.

Personal Life

She married the eighteenth President of the U.S., Ulysses Grant, in 1848 after he proposed multiple times.

She was married to Ulysses S. Grant.

How did Julia Dent Grant die?

Julia also planned to leave her memoirs for the world. Once completed, she had difficulty finding an editor with whom she could agree, and it was not until 1975 that they were published. She died form heart and kidney complications at the age of 76, and is buried next to her husband in Grant’s Tomb.