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Martin Pengelly

Galloping Grant: the day a sitting president of the US was arrested

Ulysses Grant
Ulysses Grant smiled like ‘a schoolboy who had been caught in a guilty act by a teacher’ when apprehended for a second time. Photograph: Spencer Arnold/Getty Images

Donald Trump may be preparing to become the first US president to be criminally indicted but should his perp walk for paying hush money to a porn star come to pass – perhaps granting his reported wish to be seen handcuffed – he will not be the first president ever arrested.

In 1872, President Ulysses S Grant was nicked for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage.

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