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Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War and the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
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Born 18 March 1837 · Died 24 June 1908 · Q35171
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I regard it as the culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people, and to worse than squander the public money.
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“it has been the settled policy of the United States to concede to people of foreign countries the same freedom and independence in the management of their domestic affairs that we have always claimed for ourselves.”
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“I regard it as the culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people, and to worse than squander the public money.”
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To George Brinski, a Polish immigrant, to serve in his place
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2013).
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Cleveland was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
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As part of the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Ruth Cleveland (daughter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland), not Babe Ruth.” False.
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One of the surgeons present on the Oneida, William Williams Keen, wrote an article detailing the operation
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Died 1908-06-24.
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“What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?”
Suffered a heart attack and died on June 24 at age 71 in his Princeton residence
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“Party honesty is party expediency.”
“The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.”
“I am so completely convinced of the importance of this cause, as it is related to the solution of a problem no patriotic citizen should neglect, that I look upon every attempt to stimulate popular interest and activity in its behalf as a duty of citizenship.”
A group of New Jersey Democrats promoted Cleveland as a possible candidate for the United States Senate
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The conservatives, with Cleveland's support, regained control of the Democratic Party and nominated Alton B
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Awarded the bulk of the disputed territory to British Guiana
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Cleveland lived in retirement at his estate, Westland Mansion, in Princeton, New Jersey
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Election won: 1896 Presidential Election.
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Repudiated his administration and the gold standard, and nominated William Jennings Bryan on a free-silver platform
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Campaign: 1896 Presidential Election.
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Another vacancy on the Court led Cleveland to consider Hornblower again, but he declined to be nominated
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The Senate rejected the nomination by a vote of 32 to 41
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And for the agrarian and free silver (silverite) seizure of the Democratic Party at the 1896 Democratic convention
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Cleveland withdrew the treaty from the Senate and sent former Congressman James Henderson Blount to Hawai'i to investigate the situation
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Cleveland sought the advice of the White House doctor, Robert O'Reilly, about soreness on the roof of his mouth and a crater-like edge ulcer with a granulated surface on the left side of Cleveland's hard palate
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1893–1897).
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After the death of Samuel Blatchford, Cleveland nominated William B
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Cleveland had campaigned against the Lodge Bill, which would have strengthened voting rights protections through the appointing of federal supervisors of congressional elections upon a petition from the citizens of any d
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1892–1893).
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10 days before leaving office, the 50th Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1889, authorizing North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form state governments and to gain admission to the Union
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Won only two, losing his home state of New York by 14,373 votes
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Campaign: 1888 Presidential Election.
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When the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 was renewed during Cleveland's first term
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(quoted at right) highlighted the injustice of taking more money from the people than the government needed to pay its operating expenses
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Cleveland issued his most well-known veto, that of the Texas Seed Bill
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Signed an act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission
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And remodeled it into a Queen Anne style summer estate
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A bill to reduce the tariff was narrowly defeated in the House
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That would require the government to coin unlimited amounts of silver, inflating the then-deflating currency
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The daughter of Cleveland's friend Oscar Folsom visited him in Washington
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1885–1889).
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Cleveland appointed the Board of Fortifications under Secretary of War William C
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“Opis: w telegrafie do prezydenta, 1885.”
Election lost: 1884 Presidential Election.
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Campaign: 1884 Presidential Election.
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1884–1885).
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The election focused on the swing states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Indiana
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Career landmark: Governor of New York (1883–1885).
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Career landmark: Mayor of Buffalo, New York (1882–1882).
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The Democratic party was considered to be at an advantage; several men contended for that party's nomination
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Had less thought than this limited, simple, sturdy attorney of Buffalo that four years later he would be standing in Washington and taking the oath as President of the United States
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To Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who asserted he had fathered her son Oscar Folsom Cleveland and he assumed responsibility
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Bass did not spend much time at the firm, but Cleveland and Bissell soon rose to the top of Buffalo's legal community
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With the help of friend Oscar Folsom, Cleveland secured the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Erie County, New York
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Cleveland attracted professional attention for his winning defense of a libel suit against the editor of Buffalo's Commercial Advertiser
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Successfully defended some participants in the Fenian raid, working pro bono (free of charge)
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Ran for District Attorney, losing narrowly to his friend and roommate, Lyman K
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Making him unacceptable to Northerners; Butler, conversely, was reviled throughout the Southern United States for his actions during the American Civil War; Thurman was generally well-liked, but was growing old and infir
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Missionary work began to take a toll on Richard's health
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Again left school to help support his family
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Cleveland's father Richard moved his family to Clinton, New York, accepting a job there as district secretary for the American Home Missionary Society
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The Cleveland family moved to Fayetteville, New York, where Grover spent much of his childhood
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Born 1837-03-18.
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In Caldwell, New Jersey, to Ann (née Neal) and Richard Falley Cleveland
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