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Ulysses S. Grant's election as president was largely a result of his being

A) governor of New York during the postwar economic boom.
B) a triumphant commanding general of the Union army.
C) the popular administrator of the Freedmen's Bureau.
D) a flamboyant cavalry officer in the western Indian wars.
E) incorruptible.

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He was elected president because of his success as a Union army general during the Civil War.
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