Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd (1885 - 1889) and the 24th (1893 - 1897) president of the United States. Cleveland also served as the governor of New York. He is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
He died in New Jersey in 1908.
Resources
- Grover Cleveland: BiographyThe 22nd and 24th president, Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms, as well as the first to be married in the White House.
- Grover Cleveland: Miller CenterStephen Grover Cleveland fell into politics without really trying. In 1881, local businessmen asked Cleveland, then a young lawyer, to run for mayor of Buffalo, New York. He agreed and won the Democratic nomination and the election. As mayor, Cleveland exposed city corruption and earned such a reputation for honesty and hard work that he won the New York gubernatorial race in 1882. Governor Cleveland used his power to take on the Tammany Hall, the political machine based in New York City, even though it had supported him in the election. Within a year, the Democrats were looking to Cleveland as an important new face and pragmatic reformer who might win the presidency in 1884.
- Grover Cleveland: White HouseThe first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885, our 22nd and 24th President Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later (1885-1889 and 1893-1897).
Archives, Research & Reference
- Grover Cleveland: Credo ReferenceA Credo Reference landing page on Grover Cleveland. This page includes links to reference works, journal articles, and a mind map.
- Grover Cleveland: The American Presidency ProjectInformation on Grover Cleveland from The American Presidency Project.
Grover Cleveland: Democrat 1885-1889
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Cleveland was an honest politician but he was not proactive. He used his veto power to "stop bad things from happening" but did nothing to initiate positive change. He was the only president to get married in the White House. Distributed by A&E Television Networks.
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Perspectives
Grover Cleveland
A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms. Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of nineteenth-century Chief Executives. In this book, presidential historian Henry F. Graff revives Cleveland's fame, explaining how he fought to restore stature to the office in the wake of several weak administrations. Within these pages are the elements of a rags-to-riches story as well as an account of the political world that created American leaders before the advent of modern media.
Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character
Grover Cleveland: A Study in Characteris the first comprehensive study of our 22nd and 24th president in nearly seventy years. This distinguished leader, the only Democrat elected to the presidency between the Civil War and World War I, rose to political prominence through the ranks of mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York before his election to this nation's highest office. Always concerned with the majority, never the favored few, Cleveland believed his ultimate allegiance was to the nation, not to a political party, and he acted on his strongly-held beliefs throughout his entire political life. At first considered an enemy of labor because of his firm handling of the bloody Chicago Pullman strike, many historians have overlooked Cleveland's numerous accomplishments, including his heroic quest to improve the quality of life for American Indians, his battles against the railroads and big business to prevent the destruction of American land, and his insistence on tariff reduction and remaining on the Gold Standard, which saved the nation from bankruptcy. The only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms, Grover Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House and also the first to have a child in the White House. Brodsky's engrossing work follows Grover Cleveland through his early life in upstate New York, his career as a trial lawyer, mayor, and governor through to his first and second presidencies and his last years as a lecturer and beloved member of the administration at Princeton University. Each chapter will cause readers to reevaluate our perception of this underrated President who, in his dying words said, "I tried so hard to do right," and to evaluate him in the context of his successors.
Grover Cleveland | 60-Second Presidents | PBS
Here's everything you need to know about Grover Cleveland, the 24th (as well as 22nd) President of the United States, in just 60 seconds.