Ulysses S. Grant IV

Ulysses S. Grant IV
Ulysses S. Grant IV as a Lieutenant in World War I
Born	(1893-05-23)May 23, 1893 Salem Center, Westchester County, New York
Died	March 11, 1977(1977-03-11) (aged 83) Santa Monica, California
Citizenship	American
Fields	Geology, Paleontology
Institutions	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, University of California, Los Angeles

Ulysses S. Grant IV (May 23, 1893 – March 11, 1977) was the son of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and United States Senator Jerome B. Chaffee of Colorado. He was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast. He was born at his father's farm, Merryweather Farm, in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to San Diego, California.

Grant studied geology at Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1915. Following graduation he mined for gold in Mexico. During World War I, Grant enlisted in the United States Army as a private. By the end of the war, he was a second lieutenant. From 1919 to 1925 he was connected with the . In 1926, he returned to school and took graduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1927 he entered the graduate program in paleontology at Stanford University. Grant received his doctorate in 1929.