Grover Cleveland

(noun)

The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897), and therefore, the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.

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(noun)

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and, therefore, is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

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Examples of Grover Cleveland in the following topics:

  • Cleveland and the Special Interests

    • As president, Grover Cleveland worked to eradicate spoils jobs from the government with limited success.
    • Soon after taking office, President Grover Cleveland was faced with filling all the government jobs for which the president had the power of appointment.
    • Cleveland also reformed other parts of the government.
    • In 1887, Cleveland issued the Texas Seed Bill.
    • Cleveland's Secretary of State Thomas F.

  • The Election of 1888

    • In the election of 1888, President Grover Cleveland lost to Republican Benjamin Harrison in the Electoral College despite winning the popular vote.
    • The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S.
    • The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost reelection in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin.
    • Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers.
    • Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state.

  • Depression Politics

    • The elections of members of the United States House of Representatives in 1894 came in the middle of President Grover Cleveland's second term.
    • Cleveland supporters lost heavily, weakening their hold on the party and setting the stage for an 1896 takeover by the silverist wing of the party.
    • After having elected Bourbon Democrat leader Grover Cleveland to the office of President both in 1884 and in 1892, the support for the movement was considerably damaged in the wake of the Panic of 1893.
    • The delegates at the 1896 Democratic National Convention quickly turned against the policies of Grover Cleveland and those advocated by the Bourbon Democrats, favoring bimetallism as a way out of the depression.
    • The strike was broken up by United States Marshals and some 12,000 United States Army troops, commanded by Nelson Miles, sent in by President Grover Cleveland on the premise that the strike interfered with the delivery of U.S.

  • The Scurrilous Campaign

    • New York Governor Grover Cleveland, on the other hand, was known as "Grover the Good" for his personal integrity.
    • Cleveland's campaign decided that candor was the best approach to this scandal: They admitted that Cleveland had formed an "illicit connection" with the mother and that a child had been born and given the Cleveland surname.
    • The Democrats held their convention in Chicago the following month and nominated Governor Grover Cleveland of New York.
    • Soon after taking office, President Grover Cleveland was faced with filling all of the government jobs for which the president had the power of appointment.
    • In the 1892 presidential election, Harrison was soundly defeated by Grover Cleveland, and the Senate, House, and presidency were all under Democratic control.

  • Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

    • The leading candidate for the nomination was New York Governor Grover Cleveland.
    • Cleveland's reputation for good government made him a national figure.
    • The Democrats answered by nominating Cleveland.

  • Republican Reform Under Harrison

    • The 1888 election for president of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee, Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S.
    • Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers.
    • The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost reelection in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin.
    • Grover Cleveland had vetoed a similar bill in 1887.
    • The 51st Congress was criticized as the "Billion Dollar Congress'" for its lavish spending, and for this reason, it incited drastic reversals in public support that led to Cleveland's reelection in 1892 .

  • The Tariff and the Politics of Protection

    • In the 1892 presidential election, Harrison was soundly defeated by Grover Cleveland, and the Senate, House, and Presidency were all under Democratic control.
    • Cleveland's opinion on the tariff was that of most Democrats: the tariff ought to be reduced.
    • After reversing the Harrison administration's silver policy, Cleveland sought next to reverse the effects of the McKinley tariff.
    • Morgan and Hill voted partly out of a personal enmity toward Cleveland.
    • Cleveland was outraged with the final bill, and denounced it as a disgraceful product of the control of the Senate by trusts and business interests.

  • The Debate over American Imperialism

    • Many of the League's leaders were classical liberals and "Bourbon Democrats" (Grover Cleveland Democrats) who believed in free trade, a gold standard, and limited government; they opposed William Jennings Bryan's candidacy in the 1896 presidential election.
    • Instead of voting for protectionist Republican William McKinley, however, many, including Edward Atkinson, Moorfield Storey, and Grover Cleveland, cast their ballots for the National Democratic Party presidential ticket of John M.

  • Toward Immigration Restriction

    • Yet in 1897 President Grover Cleveland vetoed the legislation.
    • In his response to Congress, Cleveland stated, “The best reason that could be given for this radical restriction of immigration is the necessity of protecting our population against degeneration and saving our national peace and quiet from imported turbulence and disorder.
    • Twenty years after Cleveland’s veto, a literacy requirement was included in the Immigration Act of 1917.

  • Tariff Reform

    • In 1892, Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected to the presidency, and much of his campaign platform focused on lowering the tariff.
    • While in office, Cleveland attempted to follow through with his campaign promise with limited success.
    • For instance, the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 did lower overall rates, but contained so many concessions to protectionism that Cleveland refused to sign it.