Who Was Alive

Were Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant alive at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were alive at the same time for 42 years, from 1822 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was 13 when Ulysses S. Grant was born.

Ulysses S. Grant was 42 when Abraham Lincoln died, aged 56.

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Born 12 February 1809 · died 15 April 1865, aged 56

Ulysses S. Grant

President of the United States from 1869 to 1877

Born 27 April 1822 · died 23 July 1885, aged 63

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Ulysses S. Grant
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Albert Einstein
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.