Grover Cleveland

BIRTH NAME
Stephen Grover Cleveland

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
Presbyterian

EDUCATION
Read law with Rogers, Bowen, & Rogers, Buffalo, NY

VITALS
5 ft 11 in / 260 lbs

CAREER
1859-63 Practiced law in Buffalo
1863-70 Assistant district attorney, Erie County
1865 Unsuccessful candidate for District Attorney, Erie County
1871-73 Sheriff, Erie County, NY
1874-81 Practiced law in Buffalo
1882 Mayor, Buffalo, NY
1883-85 Governor of New York

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 4, 1884
Popular: Cleveland 4,874,621 (48%) Blaine 4,848,936 (48%)
Electoral: Cleveland 219 Blaine 182

ADMINISTRATION
Presidential Succession Act. Civil War Acts, Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886); Tenure of Office Act repealed (1887)

BETWEEN PRESIDENCIES
1889-93 Practiced law in New York City

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 8, 1892
Popular: Cleveland 5,551,883 (46%) Benjamin Harrison 5,179,244 (43%) James Weaver 1,024,280 (8%)
Electoral: Cleveland 277 Harrison 145

ADMINISTRATION
Panic of 1893 (1893); Pullman railroad strike, Republic of Hawaii (1894)

VICE PRESIDENTS
Thomas A. Hendricks (1885)
Adlai Stevenson (1893-97)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Melville Fuller (Chief), Edward D. White, Rufus Peckham

FIRST LADIES
Rose Elizabeth "Libby" Cleveland, sister (1885-86)
Frances Clara Folsom (1886-89, 1893-97)

NEW STATE
Utah (1896)

“A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression, until Liberty enlightens the world.”
Dedication speech, Statue of Liberty, October 28, 1886

Portrait of Grover Cleveland by Eastman Johnson, 1891.