Facts about Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland

Concise Biography, History & Facts About President Grover Cleveland
Twenty-Second President -1885-1889
Twenty-Fourth President - 1893-1897
Full Name - Stephen Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland Lifespan: 1837 - 1908
Place of Birth -  March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey
Political Party - Democrat
Vice President / Vice Presidents - Thomas A Hendricks
Grover Cleveland Religion - Presbyterian
Name of Wife - Grover Cleveland was married to Frances Folsom at the White House in 1886. Frances Folsom was his twenty-one-year-old ward.  They had 5 children - Ruth (1891–1904), Esther (1893–1980), Marion (1895–1977), Richard Folsom (1897–1974), Francis Grover (1903–1995)

Career of Grover Cleveland - Lawyer, Politician, Statesman
Sheriff of Erie County, NY, 1870-73
Mayor of Buffalo, NY, 1882
Governor of New York, 1883-85
Place of Death - Grover Cleveland died
June 24, 1908 in his home in Princeton, New Jersey
Grover Cleveland was buried in Princeton, New Jersey
Next President: President Benjamin Harrisonand following his second term President William McKinley

Major Events during his presidency 1885 - 1889

  • Presidential Succession Act (1886)

  • Dedication of Statue of Liberty (1886)
  • Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
  • Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

Major Events during his presidency 1893 - 1897

  • Panic of 1893

  • Chicago World's Fair (1893)
  • Pullman's Strike (1894)

Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was President Grover Cleveland

  • Description of President Grover Cleveland - Height 5 feet 11 inches

  • Grover Cleveland weighed 250 pounds
  • Grover Cleveland Nicknames - "Big Steve", "Uncle Jumbo"
  • Scandal: Cleveland was involved in a sex-scandal in which he was accused of fathering a son out of wedlock with Maria Halpin in 1874
  • Grover Cleveland Age at Inauguration - 47 years old
  • Grover Cleveland saw himself as the watchdog of Congress
  • Cleveland sent federal troops to crush the the Pullman Car workers' strike in Illinois
  • Cleveland was opposed to the temperance movement
  • Grover Cleveland threatened Great Britain with war over a a boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain
  • Grover Cleveland Age at Death - 71 years old
  • Cleveland was the only President to serve non-consecutive terms
  • Grover Cleveland was the sixth cousin once removed of Ulysses S Grant
  • Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was Grover Cleveland

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