Bust of Ulysses S. Grant (San Francisco)

A bronze bust of Ulysses S. Grant was installed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the U.S. state of California, in 1896.

Bust of Ulysses S. Grant
The monument in 2015
Year1896 (1896)
SubjectUlysses S. Grant
LocationSan Francisco, California, U.S.

History

Grant was stationed in northern California in 1852–1854. After Grant's death in 1885, a committee was formed to create a monument in his honor. Rupert Schmid, a German-born immigrant to the United States who had met Grant and had sculpted the bust for Grant's Tomb, was commissioned in 1894 to create a bust. The bust was completed and installed in 1896.[1][2] Under pressure from the local stonecutters' union, which objected to the use of prison labor in the cutting of the granite base of the statue, the statue was taken down days after its initial installation, and reinstalled with a new base later the same year.[1]

The monument was toppled by protesters on June 19, 2020.[3][4]

References
  1. Pollock, Chris (2001). San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories. Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. pp. 57–58. ISBN 9781558685451.
  2. Mackowski, Chris; White, Kristopher D. (2015). Grant's Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Savas Beatie. p. 141. ISBN 9781611211610.
  3. Hurd, Cheryl; Smith, Christie; Quintana, Sergio (19 June 2020). "Demonstrators Topple Statues in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park". NBC Bay Area. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  4. Rubenstein, Steve; Swan, Rachel (20 June 2020). "Historical statues toppled as rage spills into San Francisco's Golden Gate Park". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 22 June 2020.


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