By 1884 he was a national figure, and he was nominated as Democratic “clean-government” candidate for President to oppose James G.Blaine. Cleveland, hated by Tammany and favored by political reformers, got the votes of many reform Republicans—the “mugwumps,” who voted against their party....
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. The first president ever to serve two discontinuous terms, Cleveland was one of the few truly honest and principled politicians of the Gilded Age. He viewed the president’s function
Grover Cleveland - US President, 22nd/24th Term: Cleveland spent the four years of the Harrison presidency in New York City, working for a prominent law firm. When the Republican-dominated Congress and the Harrison administration enacted the very high Mc