HIRAM GRANT / LESLIE KING / WILLIAM BLYTHE

U. S. presidents whose names changed

Hiram Ulysses Grant became Ulysses S Grant
via a clerical error when he entered the military.

Leslie Lynch King, Jr. became Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
because he took on his stepfather's full name when his mother remarried.

William Jefferson Blythe, IV became William Jefferson Clinton
because he took on his stepfather's surname when his mother remarried.

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