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- Birth nameStephen Grover Cleveland
- Nicknames
- Big Steve
- Grover the Good
- Ugly Honest
- The Buffalo Hangman
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections-in 1884, 1888, and 1892-and was one of two Democrats (followed by Woodrow Wilson in 1912) to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- Cleveland studied law in Buffalo and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1859. Cleveland became involved in the Democratic Party early on. In 1870 he was also appointed sheriff in Buffalo, where he served for three years. From 1881 to 1882, Cleveland served as mayor of Buffalo. In the years from 1883 to 1885, as governor of New York State, he successfully campaigned for administrative reforms and the fight against corruption, including in the Democratic Party. In 1884, Cleveland became the first Democratic Party candidate to win the presidential election after the Civil War. In his first term, Cleveland advocated administrative and tariff reform and anti-inflationary monetary policy from 1885 to 1889. An innovative feature of his administration was the initiative for legislation, which Cleveland, more than other presidents before and after him, did not leave to Congress but recognized as his own task.
In 1888, Cleveland lost the election to Republican Benjamin Harrison, whereupon he retired again to practice law. However, in the presidential election campaign of 1892, Cleveland again won the election as the Democratic Party candidate. His second term in office from 1893 to 1897 was marked by a severe economic depression and the associated social conflicts. The conservative monetary policy pursued by Cleveland deprived him of the support of his own party. In 1894, the president deployed federal troops against the great Pullman strike in Chicago. In the area of foreign policy, however, Cleveland rejected an imperialist stance, which is why he prevented the US annexation of Hawaii in 1893.
He also pursued a policy of neutrality in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1895, which was triggered by the island's uprising against Spain. Cleveland resigned from the US presidency in 1897 to retire to Princeton, New Jersey.
Stephen Grover Cleveland died on June 24, 1908 in Princeton.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth - Grover Cleveland is an American politician and lawyer who was the president of the United States.
Cleveland grew up in upstate New York. In 1881, he was elected Mayor of Buffalo and later, governor of New York. Cleveland was the leader of the Democrats who opposed high tariffs, inflation, and subsidies to business, farmers, and veterans. His crusade for political reform made him an icon for Americans of the era. Cleveland won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseFrances Folsom(June 2, 1886 - June 24, 1908) (his death, 5 children)
- Daughter Esther was the first (and, to date, the only) child to be born inside the White House (1893).
- His daughter, Ruth Cleveland (1891-1903) was the source of the name of the Baby Ruth candy bar, not the Babe Ruth of baseball fame.
- His son Francis (1903-1995) lived to age 92 which was 158 years after his father's birth.
- President of the United States, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897.
- Remains to date the only President to have ever been elected President of the United States twice out of succession. He was President from 1885-1889 and then re-elected to office after Benjamin Harrison's single term and served from 1893 to 1897.
- [to five-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt] My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you may never be president of the United States.
- [his last words] I have tried so hard to do right.
- Honor lies in honest toil.
- From our ancestors come our names; from our virtues, our honors.
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