GROVER CLEVELAND
Twenty-Fourth**  U.S. President

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March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1889

VICE PRESIDENT
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Adlai E. Stevenson

FIRST LADY
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Frances Cleveland

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**Also our 22nd President...the only man to serve two non-consecutive terms.

BIRTH NAME:  Stephen Grover Cleveland


BORN:  March 18, 1837

 

     Caldwell, New Jersey

 

CHILDREN:  2 Sons, 3 Daughters
     Grover Cleveland  also acknowledged fatherhood of an illegitimate son.

MILITARY SERVICE:  Avoided Civil War Service by hiring a substitute.

PROFESSION:  Attorney

POLITICAL PARTY:  Democratic

HOME STATENew York

PRIOR POLITICAL OFFICES:  Mayor of Buffalo, NY, New York Governor, President of the United States

NICKNAME:  "His Obstinancy"

DIED:  June 24, 1908  (Age - 71)

BURIED:  Princeton, New Jersey

"You may think Cleveland's administration was Democratic.  It was not.  Cleveland was a conservative Republican." 
Woodrow Wilson