It’s the 22d and 24th — Stephen Grover Cleveland. Both came from New York. Both maneuvered to avoid military service. Both were contemptuous of the press. Both rode into office on tariff politics.

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 ...

Donald Trump is now the second president to return to the White House after losing a bid for reelection. The first was Grover ...

Grover Cleveland was the first. The Democrat, whose full name was Stephen Grover Cleveland, served as the nation’s 22nd ...

Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump are two presidential phoenixes rising from the ashes of electoral defeat. But in the land of second chances, some sequels are best left on the cutting-room floor.