Grover Cleveland’s victory brought back a defeated president to the White House for a second term, an historic first that remains unique. In this second election on the Democratic ticket, Cleveland ...

New Yorker Grover Cleveland was mayor of Buffalo before becoming governor in 1882. His reputation as a trustworthy reformer helped him land the Democratic presidential nomination in 1884.

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I might have missed Grover Cleveland’s 188th birthday on March 18 if Paul Jacob hadn’t pointed it out in his own column on the man who (as Jacob mentions) many libertarians consider “the ...

The first Democrat elected president since the Civil War, Grover Cleveland stood for probity, self-sufficiency and fiscal conservatism. He considered the presidency a check on abuses by Congress ...