Was Ulysses S Grant arrested while president or any other time?
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Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for "fast driving" at least once, in April of 1866, which is after the U.S. Civil War ended but before Grant was elected President.
This was reported in the Alexandria (VA) Gazette on April 12, 1866 (but copied from another newspaper, so could be earlier):
GENERAL GRANT'S CASE -- This morning, the Sergeant of the Second Precinct reports the case of Gen. U. S. Grant, arrested for fast driving, as settled by the General paying the fine. We are informed that when the policeman went to Army Head Quarters and laid his warrant on the table before the General, that officer looked at it, and turning to the servant of the law, remarked, "I suppose you take a pride in this?" The officer said: -- "No, General I only do it because it is my duty." The General pleasantly intimated that under martial law the tables might be turned, and the server of the warrant sent to the guard-house. The officer replied that the General might do as he pleased but he had performed his duty, adding, "I also did my duty under you, General, at Vicksburg, and you did not find fault with me then." The General immediately acknowledged the service of the warrant, appeared before Justice Walter, and paid the fine. -- Wash. Star.
And in the Camden (NJ) Weekly Journal on April 20, 1866 (again copied from another newspaper):
General Grant Arrested for Fast Driving. On Saturday, while General Grant was exercising his fast gray nag on Fourteenth-street, officers Bailey and Crown, after a sharp race, arrested him for fast driving. General Grant offered to pay the usual fine imposed in such cases, which, of course, they could not receive; but the General expressed his doubts of their authority to arrest him, and drove off. The case was duly reported to Superintendent Richards. It is stated that this street is becoming a common racing ground, and that a large number of arrests for violations of the ordinance prohibiting fast driving are made every pleasant day, when those who delight in "speed" are out exercising their "stock." National Intelligencer, 9th.
Since the second one says "9th" and refers to "Saturday," it's possible that the incident occurred on Saturday, April 7, 1866.
This may not have been the only time that Grant was stopped for speeding. An 1886 story, written in the year after Grant's death, relates "how he was twice arrested for fast driving" (Opelousas Courier, January 9, 1886).
The September 19, 1867, Indianapolis (IN) Daily Herald contains a short news item about Grant running over a child and repeats the statement that Grant had been arrested more than once:
Fast Horse Grant. "General Grant, who has been once or twice arrested for fast driving, is reported by the police to-day as having run over a small boy, yesterday evening, while riding out and driving very rapidly. He stopped to see the boy properly cared for, and ordered all bills sent to him for payment."
It must be a great consolation to the father ot the "small boy" to know that the little fellow was run over by a great General, one who never surrenders, and that he grandly "ordered all bills sent to him." Some of these fine days some unappreciative boor may vulgarly take the laws into his own hands and send Uncle Sam Grant home with a battered head. How shocking to have the brains of a great General imperilled by a brickbat in the hands of a stout hod carrier. -- New Albany Commercial
(Chronicling America does not identify any holdings for the Alexandria Gazette or the Washington Star for the relevant dates.)
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