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Stephen Grover Cleveland
22nd President of the United states of america 24th President of the Usa
In role March 4, 1885 –  March 4, 1889 March 4, 1893 – March iv, 1897
Vice President(s)	Thomas A. Hendricks (1885, died in office), None (1885-1889), Adlai Due east. Stevenson (1893-1897)
Preceded by	Chester A. Arthur (1885) Benjamin Harrison (1893)
Succeeded by	Benjamin Harrison (1889) William McKinley (1897)
Built-in	March 18, 1837 Caldwell, New Jersey
Died	June 24, 1908 Princeton, New Jersey
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Frances Folsom Cleveland
Religion	Presbyterian
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Stephen Grover Cleveland ( March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the just President to serve two non-consecutive terms. He was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination between 1860 and 1912, and was the first Democrat to be elected after the Ceremonious War. His admirers praise him for his bedrock honesty, independence, integrity and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. Equally a leader of the Bourbon Democrats he opposed imperialism, taxes, corruption, patronage, subsidies and inflationary policies. His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 in order to go on the railroads moving angered labor unions. His back up for the gilded standard and opposition to free silverish angered the agrarian wing of the party.

Critics complained that he had piddling imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic disasters--depressions and strikes--in his second term. He lost control of his party to the agrarians and silverites in 1896.

Youth and early political career

Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Bailiwick of jersey, to the Reverend Richard Cleveland and Anne Neal. He was one of five sons and iv daughters. From 1841 to 1850, he lived in Fayetteville, New York . His father was a Presbyterian clergyman, and as the church oft transferred its ministers, the family moved many times, mainly effectually central and southern New York State.

He became involved in Democratic politics at the historic period of 28 when he worked for the presidential campaign of James Buchanan. Post-obit Buchanan's single term, the next Democrat elected president would be Cleveland himself, nigh thirty years later.

As a lawyer in Buffalo, New York, he became notable for his single-minded concentration upon whatever task faced him. He was elected sheriff of Erie County, New York in 1870 and, while in that mail service, carried out at least two hangings of condemned criminals, refusing to consul the unpleasant task to others. Political opponents would later on hold this against him, calling him the "Buffalo Hangman." Cleveland stated that he wished to accept the responsibility for the executions himself and not pass it along to subordinates.

At historic period 44, he emerged into a political prominence that carried him to the White Business firm in iii years. Running every bit a reformer, he was elected mayor of Buffalo in 1881, with the slogan "Public Function is a Public Trust" as his trademark of office. I paper, in endorsing him, said it did so for three reasons: "1. He is honest. 2. He is honest. 3. He is honest." In 1882, he was elected Governor of New York, working closely with reform-minded Republican state legislator Theodore Roosevelt.

Starting time term as President (1885-1889)

1884 entrada

Cleveland won the Presidency in the 1884 election. He won with combined support of Democrats and reform-minded Republicans called " Mugwumps," who denounced his opponent, former Senator James 1000. Blaine of Maine equally corrupt.

The campaign was relatively negative. To counter Cleveland'southward image of purity, his opponents reported that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate kid while he was a lawyer in Buffalo. Republican crowds chanted, "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?"

Although Cleveland never publicly admitted or denied the rumor, he did admit to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the adult female who claimed he fathered her child named Oscar Folsom Cleveland. Halpin was involved with several men at the time, including Cleveland's law partner and mentor, Oscar Folsom, for whom the child was named. (Cleveland is believed to have assumed responsibleness because he was the but available among them.) After Cleveland's election as President, Autonomous newspapers added a line to chant used confronting Cleveland and made it: "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House! Ha Ha Ha!"

Personal life

Grover Cleveland was the second President married in part, and the just President married in the White House itself

In June 1886, Cleveland married Frances Folsom, the daughter of his former law partner, in the Blueish Room in the White Firm. He was the second President to be married while in role, and the but President to have a wedding in the White House itself. This marriage was controversial because Cleveland was the executor of the Folsom estate and supervised Frances' upbringing. Folsom, at 21 years old, was also the youngest Offset Lady in the history of the Us.

Politics

Cleveland'southward administration might be characterized by his proverb: "I have only one matter to do, and that is to exercise right". Cleveland himself insisted that, as President, his greatest accomplishment was blocking others' bad ideas. He vigorously pursued a policy barring special favors to any economical grouping. Vetoing a bill to appropriate $x,000 to distribute seed grain among drought-stricken farmers in Texas, he wrote: "Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character...." He also vetoed hundreds of private pension bills to American Ceremonious War veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured by the Grand Army of the Republic, passed a bill granting pensions for disabilities not caused by armed services service, Cleveland vetoed that, too. Cleveland used the veto far more often than whatsoever President upward to that fourth dimension. Cleveland had an essentially negative view of Presidential power, telling a friend that his principal duty and greatest service to the country was in preventing Congress from enacting bad bills.

Cleveland started a well received campaign against the Southwestern Apache tribe in 1885. They, headed by Chief Geronimo, were defending their homeland against the white settlers in that region until, in 1886, Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles captured them and the campaign was over.

President Cleveland angered the railroads by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by regime grant, forcing them to return 81,000,000 acres (328,000 km²). He too signed the Interstate Commerce Act, the first law attempting Federal regulation of the railroads.

Foreign policy

Cleveland was a committed isolationist who had campaigned in opposition to expansion and imperialism. He reversed policy and withdrew the treaty for the looting of Hawaii negotiated past Benjamin Harrison from the consideration of the Senate. Cleveland often quoted the advice of George Washington's Farewell Accost in decrying alliances, and he slowed the stride of expansion that President Chester Arthur had begun. Cleveland refused to promote Arthur's Nicaragua canal treaty, calling it an "entangling alliance". Complimentary merchandise deals (reciprocity treaties) with United mexican states and several South American countries died because at that place was no Senate approving. Cleveland withdrew from Senate consideration the Berlin Conference treaty which guaranteed an open door for U.S. interests in Congo.

But as journalist Fareed Zakaria argued, "But while Cleveland retarded the speed and aggressiveness of U.S. foreign policy, the overall direction did not alter." Historian Charles South. Campbell argues that the audiences who listened to Cleveland and Secretary of State Thomas Due east. Bayard's moralistic lectures "readily detected through the high moral tone a precipitous eye for the national interest." Cleveland supported Hawaiian free merchandise (reciprocity) and accepted an subpoena that gave the United States a coaling and naval station in Pearl Harbour. Naval orders were placed with Republican industrialists rather than Autonomous ones, simply the military build up actually quickened.

In his second term Cleveland stated that past 1893, the U.S. Navy had been used to promote American interests in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil, and Hawaii. Nether Cleveland, the U.S. adopted a broad interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine that did not just simply forbid new European colonies but alleged an American involvement in any matter inside the hemisphere.

Crusade against protective tariff

In December 1887, Cleveland called on Congress to reduce high protective tariffs:

The theory of our institutions guarantees to every citizen the full enjoyment of all the fruits of his industry and enterprise, with only such deduction as may be his share toward the careful and economical maintenance of the Government which protects him... the exaction of more than this is indefensible extortion and a culpable betrayal of American fairness and justice. This wrong inflicted upon those who bear the burden of national tax, like other wrongs, multiplies a brood of evil consequences. The public Treasury... becomes a hoarding place for money needlessly withdrawn from trade and the people'southward use, thus crippling our national energies, suspending our country's development, preventing investment in productive enterprise, threatening financial disturbance, and inviting schemes of public plunder.

He failed to secure passage of the Lower Mills Tariff and made it the primal upshot of his losing 1888 campaign, as Republicans claimed a high tariff was needed to produce high wages, high profits, and fast economic expansion.

Administration (1885-1889)

Significant events

• American Federation of Labor was created (1886)
• Haymarket Riot (1886)
• Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company five. Illinois (1886)
• Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
• Dawes Act (1887)

Administration and Cabinet

Statue of Grover Cleveland outside City Hall in Buffalo, New York

Office	NAME	TERM
President	Grover Cleveland	1885–1889
Vice President	Thomas A. Hendricks	1885
	None	1885–1889
Secretary of State	Thomas F. Bayard	1885–1889
Secretarial assistant of the Treasury	Daniel Manning	1885–1887
	Charles South. Fairchild	1887–1889
Secretarial assistant of War	William C. Endicott	1885–1889
Attorney General	Augustus H. Garland	1885–1889
Postmaster General	William F. Vilas	1885–1888
	Don Thou. Dickinson	1888–1889
Secretary of the Navy	William C. Whitney	1885–1889
Secretary of the Interior	Lucius Q. C. Lamar	1885–1888
	William F. Vilas	1888–1889
Secretary of Agriculture	Norman Jay Colman	1889

Supreme Courtroom appointments

Cleveland appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Courtroom of the Us during his starting time term.

• Lucius Q. C. Lamar – 1888
• Melville Weston Fuller ( Chief Justice) – 1888

1888 campaign for reelection

Cleveland was defeated in the 1888 presidential ballot. He actually led in the popular vote over Benjamin Harrison (48.6% to 47.8%), but Harrison won the Electoral College past a 233-168 margin, largely by squeaking out a barely-over-1% win in Cleveland's dwelling land of New York; in fact, had Cleveland won his home state, he would accept won the electoral vote past a count of 204-197 (201 votes then needed for victory). Note, though, that Cleveland earned 24 of his electoral votes in states that he won by less than one% (Connecticut, Virginia, and West Virginia).

Cleveland thus became one of just four men to conspicuously win the popular vote only lose the presidency; in that location would not be another such ballot until Al Gore's narrow loss to George W. Bush in 2000. As she and the ex-president left the White House, Frances Cleveland bodacious the staff that they would return in iv years.

Assistants (1893-1897)

Campaign

The primary bug for Cleveland for the 1892 campaign were reducing the tariff and stopping gratuitous minting of argent which had depleted the gilt reserves of the U.Southward. Treasury. Cleveland was elected once again in 1892, thus becoming the but President in U.S. history to be elected to a second term which did not run in succession with the first.

Politics

Shortly after Cleveland was inaugurated, the Panic of 1893 struck the stock market place, and he shortly faced an acute economic depression. He dealt directly with the Treasury crisis rather than with business organization failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. He obtained repeal of the mildly inflationary Sherman Silver Purchase Human action. With the assistance of J. P. Morgan and Wall Street, he maintained the Treasury's gold reserve.

Cleveland'due south humiliation by Gorman and the sugar trust; cartoon by W. A. Rogers

He fought to lower the tariff in 1893-94. The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Human action introduced past West Virginian Representative William Fifty. Wilson and passed by the Business firm would have made significant reforms. Still, by the time the neb passed the Senate, guided by Democrat Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, it had more than than 600 amendments attached that nullified most of the reforms. The "Saccharide Trust" in particular made changes that favored information technology at the expense of the consumer. It imposed an income tax of two pct to brand up for acquirement that would be lost by tariff reductions. Cleveland was devastated that his programme had been ruined. He denounced the revised mensurate as a disgraceful production of "party perfidy and party dishonor," but still immune information technology to become law without his signature, believing that information technology was better than goose egg and was at the to the lowest degree an improvement over the McKinley tariff.

Cleveland refused to allow Eugene Debs to use the Pullman Strike to close down most of the nation's rider, freight and mail traffic in June 1894. He obtained an injunction in federal court, and when the strikers refused to obey it, he sent in federal troops to Chicago, Illinois and 20 other rail centers. "If it takes the entire army and navy of the Usa to deliver a postcard in Chicago," he thundered, "that card will be delivered." Virtually governors supported Cleveland except Democrat John P. Altgeld of Illinois, who became his bitter foe in 1896.

Cleveland's agrarian and silverite enemies seized command of the Autonomous party in 1896, repudiated his assistants and the gold standard, and nominated William Jennings Bryan on a Silver Platform. Cleveland silently supported the National Democratic Party (United States) (or "Golden Democratic") third party ticket that promised to defend the aureate standard, express government, and oppose protectionism. The party won only 100,000 votes in the general ballot (simply over ane percentage). Agrarians again nominated Bryan in 1900, only in 1904 the conservatives, with Cleveland'south support, regained command of the Democratic Party and nominated Alton B. Parker.

Typewriters were new in 1893, and this cartoon shows Cleveland every bit unable to work the Democratic Political party car without jamming the keys (the central politicians in his political party)

Foreign affairs

Invoking the Monroe Doctrine in 1895, Cleveland forced the U.k. to take arbitration of a disputed boundary in Venezuela. His administration is credited with the modernization of the United States Navy that allowed the U.South. to decisively win the Spanish-American War in 1898, one year after he left office.

In 1893, Cleveland sent erstwhile Congressman James Henderson Blount to Hawaii to investigate the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the establishment of a provisional government. He supported Blount's scathing report which blamed the U.Due south. for the overthrow; chosen for the restoration of Liliuokalani; and withdrew from the Senate the treaty of annexation of Hawaii. When the deposed Queen refused to grant immunity as a status of her reinstatement, and said she would execute the current authorities in Honolulu, Cleveland referred the thing to Congress. The Senate then produced the Morgan Report, which completely contradicted Blount'southward findings and found the overthrow was a completely internal affair. Post-obit the Turpie Resolution of May 31, 1894, which vowed a policy of non-interference in Hawaiian affairs, Cleveland dropped all support for reinstating the Queen, and further went on to officially recognize and maintain diplomatic relations with the Republic of Hawaii declared on July 4, 1894.

Women's Rights

Cleveland was a stout opponent of the women's suffrage (voting) movement. In a 1905 article in The Ladies Home Periodical, Cleveland wrote, "Sensible and responsible women do non want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by men and women in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence." *

Significant events

• Panic of 1893
• Cleveland withdraws a treaty for the Annexation of Hawaii, and attempts to reinstate Queen Liliuokalani (1893)
• Cleveland withdraws his support for the Queen'southward reinstatement afterwards farther investigation by Congress in the Morgan Report (1894)
• Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act (1894)
• Pullman Strike (1894)
• Coxey'south Regular army (1894)
• United states of america v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)

Administration and Cabinet

Official

White House portrait of Grover Cleveland

OFFICE	Name	TERM
President	Grover Cleveland	1893–1897
Vice President	Adlai Eastward. Stevenson	1893–1897
Secretarial assistant of State	Walter Q. Gresham	1893–1895
	Richard Olney	1895–1897
Secretarial assistant of the Treasury	John G. Carlisle	1893–1897
Secretary of War	Daniel S. Lamont	1893–1897
Attorney Full general	Richard Olney	1893–1895
	Judson Harmon	1895–1897
Postmaster General	Wilson S. Bissell	1893–1895
	William L. Wilson	1895–1897
Secretary of the Navy	Hilary A. Herbert	1893–1897
Secretary of the Interior	Hoke Smith	1893–1896
	David R. Francis	1896–1897
Secretary of Agriculture	Julius Sterling Morton	1893–1897

Supreme Court appointments

Cleveland appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court during his second term.

• Edward Douglass White – 1894
• Rufus Wheeler Peckham – 1896

Ii of Cleveland's nominees were rejected past the Senate.

• William Hornblower, on January 15, 1894, past a vote of 24-30.
• Wheeler Hazard Peckham, (the older brother of Rufus Wheeler) on Feb sixteen, 1894, past a vote of 32-41.

States admitted to the Union

• Utah – January 4, 1896

Cancer

Just after Cleveland began his second term in 1893, Md R.M. O'Reilly found an ulcerated sore a little less than 1 inch (24 mm) in diameter on the left lingual surface of Cleveland's difficult palate. Initial biopsies were inconclusive; later on the samples were proven to be a malignant cancer. Considering of the financial low of the country, Cleveland decided to have surgery performed on the tumor in secrecy to avoid further market place panic. The surgery occurred on July ane, to requite Cleveland time to make a full recovery in time for an Baronial 7 address to Congress, which had recessed at the terminate of June.

Under the guise of a vacation cruise, Cleveland, accompanied by lead surgeon Dr. Joseph Bryant, left for New York. Bryant, joined by his assistant Dr. John F. Erdmann, Dr. W.W. Keen Jr., Dr. Ferdinand Hasbrouck (dentist and anesthesiologist), and Dr. Edward Janeway, operated aboard the yacht Oneida equally it sailed off Long Island. The surgery was conducted through the President'due south rima oris, to avoid any scars or other signs of surgery. The team, sedating Cleveland with nitrous oxide (laughing gas), removed his upper left jaw and portions of his difficult palate. The size of the tumor and the extent of the functioning left Cleveland's oral cavity severely disfigured. During another surgery, an orthodontist fitted Cleveland with a hard safety prosthesis that corrected his speech communication and covered up the surgery.

A embrace story almost the removal of two bad teeth kept the suspicious printing somewhat placated. Fifty-fifty when a paper story appeared giving details of the actual functioning, the participating surgeons discounted the severity of what transpired during Cleveland's vacation. In 1917, one of the surgeons present on the Oneida (Dr. W.W. Keen, Jr.) wrote an article detailing the operation. The lump was preserved and is on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The final diagnosis was verrucous carcinoma and the president was rendered cured by the surgical excision.

Afterwards life and death

Oil painting of Grover Cleveland, painted in 1899 by

Anders Zorn.

Subsequently leaving the White House, Cleveland lived in retirement in Princeton, New Jersey. For a fourth dimension he was a trustee of Princeton University, bringing him into opposition to the school'south president, Woodrow Wilson. Bourgeois Democrats hoped to nominate him for another presidential term in 1904, just his age and health forced them to plough to other candidates. Cleveland consulted occasionally with President Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had constructively worked while Governor of New York decades before.

The former president had been scheduled to exist the Chairman and Master of Ceremonies for Robert Fulton Day on September 24, 1907 at the Jamestown Exposition at Sewell'south Point on Hampton Roads, Virginia. However, ill-health forced him to abolish, and his role was filled by humorist Mark Twain.

Cleveland died in 1908 from a center set on, with his wife at his side. He was buried in the Princeton Cemetery of the Nassau Presbyterian Church building.

Honours and memorials

Cleveland's portrait was on the U.S. $1000 bill from 1928 to 1946. He also appeared on a $1000 nib of 1907 and the first few issues of the $xx Federal Reserve notes from 1914.

Since he was both the 22nd and 24th President, he volition be featured on two separate dollar coins to be released in 2012 as function of the Presidential $1 Coin Deed of 2005.

Many public schools beyond the country are named in his honour.

Trivia

• Cleveland is an honorary Sigma Chi, and the only brother in the history of the fraternity to concur the office of President.

• George Cleveland, the president's grandson, is now an impersonator and historical reenactor of his famous granddad. .

• The president's granddaughter Philippa Foot is a philosopher at Oxford University.

• The baseball role player Grover Cleveland Alexander was named afterward him.

• Cleveland got along better with the members of the U.S. Firm of Representatives than with the United states of america Senate. A joke of the day had the First Lady waking in the middle of the night and whispering to Cleveland, "Wake upward, Grover. I think there's a burglar in the house." Cleveland sleepily mumbled, "No, no. Peradventure in the Senate, my dear, just non in the House."

• Cleveland had a somewhat phlegmatic personality, and critics defendant him of insensitivity to the suffering of the poor during the Panic of 1893. One joke told of the President noticing a starving man eating grass on the White Business firm lawn. Cleveland stuck his head out the window and suggested he go to the back yard, since the grass was longer at that place.

• Because Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, the protocol was unclear as to whether he was officially the 22nd or 24th President of the United States. A special Act of Congress resolved the issue past decreeing that he was both the 22nd and the 24th President.

• The street on which Cleveland's summer abode was located (Bourne, Massachusetts) is at present called President's Road. In the location where his "Summer White House" stood is at present a calibration replica (the building burned in 1973).

• Cleveland was the just president between Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley who did not serve in the Ceremonious State of war (he hired a substitute, as the conscription law of the time permitted).

• Cleveland was the get-go of only ii police officers to become President; the second, Theodore Roosevelt, was a deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory and a New York City Police Commissioner.

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