Biography
Stephen Grover Cleveland, President of the USA, was born 18 March 1837 in Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, United States to Richard Falley Cleveland (1804-1853) and Anne Neal (1806-1882) and died 24 June 1908 Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States of Heart Attack. He married Frances Clara Folsom (1864-1947) 2 June 1886 .
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18 1837 – June 24 1908), the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, was the only President to serve non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He was defeated for reelection in 1888 by Benjamin Harrison, against whom he ran again in 1892 and won a second term. He was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination between 1860 and 1912, after the American Civil War. His admirers praise him for his bedrock honesty, independence, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes, corruption, patronage, subsidies and inflationary policies.
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Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904) | |||
Esther Cleveland (1893-1980) | |||
Marion Cleveland (1895-1977) | |||
Richard Folsom Cleveland (1897-1974) | |||
Francis Grover Cleveland (1903-1995) |
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