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Mar 19, 2021 · With the seemingly flawless candidate Grover “the Good” Cleveland came a violent affair and an illegitimate child. Thus, the moral fiber of the United States was fractured, bringing this country to her knees. This is the story of Maria Halpin, Grover Cleveland, and the Election of 1884. Election of 1884, Cleveland & Hendricks Poster.
Grover Cleveland: Impact and Legacy. By Henry F. Graff. Historians do not rank Grover Cleveland as a great President. Even as a party leader, the consensus is that he achieved mixed results at best. Cleveland did help to create a Solid South for the Democrats by encouraging former Confederates to believe they had a friend in the White House ...
- Early Career
- Sheriff, Mayor and Governor
- First Term in The White House: 1885-89
- Second Term in The White House: 1893-97
- Final Years
Stephen Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, on March 18, 1837. He was the fifth of nine children of Richard Falley Cleveland (1804-53), a Presbyterian minister, and Anne Neal Cleveland (1806-82). In 1841, the family moved to upstate New York, where Cleveland’s father served several congregations before his death in 1853. Cleveland le...
Cleveland’s first political office was sheriff of Erie County, New York, a position he assumed in 1871. During his two-year term, he carried out the death sentence (by hanging) of three convicted murderers. In 1873, he returned to his law practice. He was persuaded to run for mayor of Buffalo in 1881 as a reformer of a corrupt city government. He w...
Cleveland won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1884 in spite of the opposition of Tammany Hall. The 1884 presidential campaign was ugly: Cleveland’s Republican opponent, U.S. Senator James G. Blaine (1830-93) of Maine, was implicated in several financial scandals, while Cleveland was involved in a paternity case in which he admitted that h...
Unlike the campaign of 1884, the presidential campaign of 1892 was quiet and restrained. President Harrison, whose wife, Caroline Harrison(1832-92), was dying of tuberculosis, did not campaign personally, and Cleveland followed suit. Cleveland won the election, in part because voters had changed their minds about high tariffs and also because Tamma...
By the fall of 1896, Cleveland had become unpopular with some factions in his own party. Other Democrats, however, wanted him to run for a third term, as there was no term limit for presidents at that time. Cleveland declined, and former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) of Nebraska won the nomination. Bryan, who later became f...
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e. Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. [b] In the years before his presidency, he served as a mayor and ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Indeed, “[t]hrough all the four years of Mr. Harrison’s administration Mr. Cleveland was the most conspicuous man in the country out of office, and a sort of popular expectation followed him in all his movements,” recalled Woodrow Wilson. 12 Close Talk of another presidential run spread enthusiastically. And after minor challenges from pro-silver Democrats and a few political machine ...
Jun 20, 2020 · 34 th Mayor of Buffalo. After his Sheriff days, Cleveland contested and won a mayoral election against Milton C. Beebe. He was elected with 15,120 votes against 11,528 votes secured by Milton. Cleveland was sworn into office on January 2, 1882 as the 34th Mayor of Buffalo.
Cleveland and the Tariff. Grover Cleveland was a true conservative. He opposed unnecessary government meddling in the nation's economy, arguing that a high tariff was an interfering factor in the natural economic order of things. Cleveland also was embarrassed by the continued growth of the government surplus. Convinced that a change was needed ...
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