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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 ...
- The American Franchise
Most historians see the Grover Cleveland years as the last...
- Life in Brief
Stephen Grover Cleveland fell into politics without really...
- Life After The Presidency
Grover Cleveland died as he had lived: determined to be in...
- Campaigns and Elections
Grover Cleveland carried four advantages into the 1884...
- Domestic Affairs
Cleveland's most forceful response to the depression was to...
- Family Life
During his second term, Cleveland faced a medical scare that...
- The American Franchise
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.
- 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...
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 ...
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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 ...
Grover Cleveland, the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms, vetoed more legislation than any prior president, earning the nickname “Old Veto.” He believed in a “hands-off” government and often rejected bills that favored individual groups. For instance, he vetoed what he thought were unnecessary pension bills for Civil War veterans. After being ousted from office in 1889 by ...
Aug 28, 2023 · On November 6, 1888, President Grover Cleveland was defeated in his bid for re-election by the Republican candidate, Benjamin Harrison. Although President Cleveland won the popular vote, Harrison won the Electoral College and thus the presidency. The Republicans entered the election of 1888 with a well-organized and effective campaign structure.
