Grover Cleveland - wikipedia Grover Cleveland 22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Cleveland 22nd and 24th President of the United States In office March 4, 1893 -- March 4, 1897 Vice President Adlai Stevenson I Preceded by Benjamin Harrison Succeeded by William McKinley In office March 4, 1885 -- March 4, 1889 Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks ( 1885 ) None ( 1885 -- 1889 ) Preceded by Chester A. Arthur Succeeded by Benjamin Harrison 28th Governor of New York In office January 1, 1883 -- January 6, 1885 Lieutenant David B. Hill Preceded by Alonzo B. Cornell Succeeded by David B. Hill 34th Mayor of Buffalo In office January 2, 1882 -- November 20, 1882 Preceded by Alexander Brush Succeeded by Marcus M. Drake 17th Sheriff of Erie County, New York In office 1871 -- 1873 Preceded by Charles Darcy Succeeded by John B. Weber Personal details Stephen Grover Cleveland ( 1837 - 03 - 18 ) March 18, 1837 Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S. June 24, 1908 ( 1908 - 06 - 24 ) ( aged 71 ) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Resting place Princeton Cemetery, New Jersey Political party Democratic Spouse ( s ) Frances Folsom ( m. 1886 ) Children 5, including Ruth ( `` Baby '' ), Esther, Richard Parents Richard Falley Cleveland Ann Neal Relatives Rose Cleveland ( sister ) Philippa Foot ( granddaughter ) Profession Politician lawyer Signature Stephen Grover Cleveland ( March 18, 1837 -- June 24, 1908 ) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office ( 1885 -- 1889 and 1893 -- 1897 ). He won the popular vote for three presidential elections -- in 1884, 1888, and 1892 -- and was one of two Democrats ( with Woodrow Wilson ) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933. Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans on libertarian philosophical grounds. His crusade for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era. Cleveland won praise for his honesty, self - reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. He fought political corruption, patronage, and bossism. As a reformer, Cleveland had such prestige that the like - minded wing of the Republican Party, called `` Mugwumps '', largely bolted the GOP presidential ticket and swung to his support in the 1884 election. As his second administration began, disaster hit the nation when the Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depression, which Cleveland was unable to reverse. It ruined his Democratic Party, opening the way for a Republican landslide in 1894 and for the agrarian and silverite seizure of the Democratic Party in 1896. The result was a political realignment that ended the Third Party System and launched the Fourth Party System and the Progressive Era. Cleveland was a formidable policymaker, and he also drew corresponding criticism. His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 to keep the railroads moving angered labor unions nationwide in addition to the party in Illinois ; his support of the gold standard and opposition to Free Silver alienated the agrarian wing of the Democratic Party. Critics complained that Cleveland had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation 's economic disasters -- depressions and strikes -- in his second term. Even so, his reputation for probity and good character survived the troubles of his second term. Biographer Allan Nevins wrote, `` ( I ) n Grover Cleveland, the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities. He had no endowments that thousands of men do not have. He possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possessed them to a degree other men do not. '' By the end of his second term, public perception showed him to be one of the most unpopular U.S. presidents, and was by then rejected even by most Democrats. Today, Cleveland is considered by most historians to have been a successful leader, generally ranked among the upper - mid tier of American presidents. Contents 1 Early life 1.1 Childhood and family history 1.2 Education and moving west 1.3 Early career and the Civil War 2 Political career in New York 2.1 Sheriff of Erie County 2.2 Mayor of Buffalo 2.3 Governor of New York 3 Election of 1884 3.1 Nomination for president 3.2 Campaign against Blaine 4 First term as president ( 1885 -- 1889 ) 4.1 Reform 4.2 Vetoes 4.3 Silver 4.4 Tariffs 4.5 Foreign policy, 1885 -- 1889 4.6 Military policy, 1885 -- 1889 4.7 Civil rights and immigration 4.8 Indian policy 4.9 Marriage and children 4.10 Administration and Cabinet 4.11 Judicial appointments 5 Election of 1888 and return to private life 5.1 Defeated by Harrison 5.2 Private citizen for four years 6 Election of 1892 6.1 Democratic nomination 6.2 Campaign against Harrison 7 Second term as president ( 1893 -- 1897 ) 7.1 Economic panic and the silver issue 7.2 Tariff reform 7.3 Voting rights 7.4 Labor unrest 7.5 Pullman Strike 7.6 Foreign policy, 1893 -- 1897 7.7 Military policy, 1893 -- 1897 7.8 Cancer 7.9 Administration and cabinet 7.10 Judicial appointments 7.11 States admitted to the Union 8 1896 election and retirement 9 Honors and memorials 10 See also 11 Notes 12 Further reading 13 External links Early life Childhood and family History Caldwell Presbyterian parsonage, birthplace of Grover Cleveland in Caldwell, New Jersey Stephen Grover Cleveland was born on March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey, to Ann ( née Neal ) and Richard Falley Cleveland. Cleveland 's father was a Congregational and Presbyterian minister who was originally from Connecticut. His mother was from Baltimore and was the daughter of a bookseller. On his father 's side, Cleveland was descended from English ancestors, the first of the family having emigrated to Massachusetts from Cleveland, England in 1635. His father 's maternal grandfather, Richard Falley Jr., fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and was the son of an immigrant from Guernsey. On his mother 's side, Cleveland was descended from Anglo - Irish Protestants and German Quakers from Philadelphia. Cleveland was distantly related to General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city of Cleveland, Ohio, was named. Cleveland, the fifth of nine children, was named Stephen Grover in honor of the first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell, where his father was pastor at the time. He became known as Grover in his adult life. In 1841, the Cleveland family moved to Fayetteville, New York, where Grover spent much of his childhood. Neighbors later described him as `` full of fun and inclined to play pranks, '' and fond of outdoor sports. In 1850, Cleveland 's father moved to Clinton, Oneida County, New York, to work as district secretary for the American Home Missionary Society. Despite his father 's dedication to his missionary work, the income was insufficient for the large family. Financial conditions forced him to remove Grover from school into a two - year mercantile apprenticeship in Fayetteville. The experience was valuable and brief, and the living conditions quite austere. Grover returned to Clinton and his schooling at the completion of the apprentice contract. In 1853, when missionary work began to take a toll on his health, Cleveland 's father took an assignment in Holland Patent, New York ( near Utica ) and the family moved again. Shortly after, he died from a gastric ulcer, with Grover reputedly hearing of his father 's death from a boy selling newspapers. Education and moving West An early, undated photograph of Grover Cleveland Cleveland received his elementary education at the Fayetteville Academy and the Clinton Liberal Academy. After his father died in 1853, he again left school to help support his family. Later that year, Cleveland 's brother William was hired as a teacher at the New York Institute for the Blind in New York City, and William obtained a place for Cleveland as an assistant teacher. He returned home to Holland Patent at the end of 1854, where an elder in his church offered to pay for his college education if he would promise to become a minister. Cleveland declined, and in 1855 he decided to move west. He stopped first in Buffalo, New York, where his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, gave him a clerical job. Allen was an important man in Buffalo, and he introduced his nephew to influential men there, including the partners in the law firm of Rogers, Bowen, and Rogers. Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, had previously worked for the partnership. Cleveland later took a clerkship with the firm, began to read the law, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1859. Early career and the Civil War Cleveland worked for the Rogers firm for three years, then left in 1862 to start his own practice. In January 1863, he was appointed assistant district attorney of Erie County. With the American Civil War raging, Congress passed the Conscription Act of 1863, requiring able - bodied men to serve in the army if called upon, or else to hire a substitute. Cleveland chose the latter course, paying $150 to George Benninsky, a thirty - two - year - old Polish immigrant, to serve in his place. As a lawyer, Cleveland became known for his single - minded concentration and dedication to hard work. In 1866, he successfully defended some participants in the Fenian raid, working on a pro bono basis ( free of charge ). In 1868, Cleveland attracted professional attention for his winning defense of a libel suit against the editor of Buffalo 's Commercial Advertiser. During this time, Cleveland assumed a lifestyle of simplicity, taking residence in a plain boarding house ; Cleveland dedicated his growing income instead to the support of his mother and younger sisters. While his personal quarters were austere, Cleveland enjoyed an active social life and `` the easy - going sociability of hotel - lobbies and saloons. '' He shunned the circles of higher society of Buffalo in which his uncle 's family traveled. Political career in New York Sheriff of Erie County Statue of Grover Cleveland outside City Hall in Buffalo, New York From his earliest involvement in politics, Cleveland aligned with the Democratic Party. He had a decided aversion to Republicans John Fremont and Abraham Lincoln, and the heads of the Rogers law firm were solid Democrats. In 1865, he ran for District Attorney, losing narrowly to his friend and roommate, Lyman K. Bass, the Republican nominee. In 1870, with the help of friend Oscar Folsom, Cleveland secured the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of Erie County, New York. He won the election by a 303 - vote margin and took office on January 1, 1871 at age 33. While this new career took him away from the practice of law, it was rewarding in other ways : the fees were said to yield up to $40,000 ( equivalent to $800,000 in 2017 ) over the two - year term. Cleveland 's service as sheriff was unremarkable ; biographer Rexford Tugwell described the time in office as a waste for Cleveland politically. Cleveland was aware of graft in the sheriff 's office during his tenure and chose not to confront it. A notable incident of his term took place on September 6, 1872, when Patrick Morrissey was executed, who had been convicted of murdering his mother. As sheriff, Cleveland was responsible for either personally carrying out the execution or paying a deputy $10 to perform the task. In spite of reservations about the hanging, Cleveland executed Morrissey himself ; he hanged another murderer, John Gaffney, on February 14, 1873. After his term as sheriff ended, Cleveland returned to his law practice, opening a firm with his friends Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell. Elected to Congress in 1872, Bass did not spend much time at the firm, but Cleveland and Bissell soon rose to the top of Buffalo 's legal community. Up to that point, Cleveland 's political career had been honorable and unexceptional. As biographer Allan Nevins wrote, `` Probably no man in the country, on March 4, 1881, had less thought than this limited, simple, sturdy attorney of Buffalo that four years later he would be standing in Washington and taking the oath as President of the United States. '' It was during this period that Cleveland began a relationship with a widow, Maria Crofts Halpin. She accused him of raping her. He accused her of being an alcoholic and consorting with men. He had her institutionalized and her child taken away and raised by his friends. The illegitimate child became a campaign issue for the GOP in his first presidential campaign. Mayor of Buffalo In the 1870s, the municipal government in Buffalo had grown increasingly corrupt, with Democratic and Republican political machines cooperating to share the spoils of political office. In 1881 the Republicans nominated a slate of particularly disreputable machine politicians ; the Democrats saw the opportunity to gain the votes of disaffected Republicans by nominating a more honest candidate. The party leaders approached Cleveland, and he agreed to run for Mayor of Buffalo, provided that the rest of the ticket was to his liking. When the more notorious politicians were left off the Democratic ticket, Cleveland accepted the nomination. Cleveland was elected mayor with 15,120 votes, as against 11,528 for Milton C. Beebe, his opponent. He took office January 2, 1882. Cleveland 's term as mayor was spent fighting the entrenched interests of the party machines. Among the acts that established his reputation was a veto of the street - cleaning bill passed by the Common Council. The street - cleaning contract was open for bids, and the Council selected the highest bidder at $422,000, rather than the lowest of $100,000 less, because of the political connections of the bidder. While this sort of bipartisan graft had previously been tolerated in Buffalo, Mayor Cleveland would have none of it. His veto message said, `` I regard it as the culmination of a most bare - faced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people, and to worse than squander the public money. '' The Council reversed itself and awarded the contract to the lowest bidder. Cleveland also asked the state legislature to form a Commission to develop a plan to improve the sewer system in Buffalo at a much lower cost than previously proposed locally ; this plan was successfully adopted. For this, and other actions safeguarding public funds, Cleveland 's reputation as a leader willing to purge government corruption began to spread beyond Erie County. Governor of New York Gubernatorial portrait of Grover Cleveland New York Democratic party officials began to consider Cleveland a possible nominee for governor. Daniel Manning, a party insider who admired Cleveland 's record, was instrumental in his candidacy. With a split in the state Republican party in 1882, the Democratic party was considered to be at an advantage ; there were several contenders for that party 's nomination. The two leading Democratic candidates were Roswell P. Flower and Henry W. Slocum. Their factions deadlocked, and the convention could not agree on a nominee. Cleveland, in third place on the first ballot, picked up support in subsequent votes and emerged as the compromise choice. The Republican party remained divided against itself, and in the general election Cleveland emerged the victor, with 535,318 votes to Republican nominee Charles J. Folger 's 342,464. Cleveland 's margin of victory was, at the time, the largest in a contested New York election ; the Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of the New York State Legislature. Cleveland brought his opposition to needless spending to the governor 's office ; he promptly sent the legislature eight vetos in his first two months in office. The first to attract attention was his veto of a bill to reduce the fares on New York City elevated trains to five cents. The bill had broad support because the trains ' owner, Jay Gould, was unpopular, and his fare increases were widely denounced. Cleveland, however, saw the bill as unjust -- Gould had taken over the railroads when they were failing and had made the system solvent again. Moreover, Cleveland believed that altering Gould 's franchise would violate the Contract Clause of the federal Constitution. Despite the initial popularity of the fare - reduction bill, the newspapers praised Cleveland 's veto. Theodore Roosevelt, then a member of the Assembly, had reluctantly voted for the bill to which Cleveland objected, in a desire to punish the unscrupulous railroad barons. After the veto, Roosevelt reversed himself, as did many legislators, and the veto was sustained. Cleveland 's defiance of political corruption won him popular acclaim, and the enmity of the influential Tammany Hall organization in New York City. Tammany, under its boss, John Kelly, had disapproved of Cleveland 's nomination as governor, and their resistance intensified after Cleveland openly opposed and prevented the re-election of their point man in the State Senate, Thomas F. Grady. Cleveland also steadfastly opposed nominees of the Tammanyites, as well as bills passed as a result of their deal making. The loss of Tammany 's support was offset by the support of Theodore Roosevelt and other reform - minded Republicans who helped Cleveland to pass several laws reforming municipal governments. Election of 1884 Main articles : United States presidential election, 1884 and Grover Cleveland Presidential campaign, 1884 Nomination for President Main article : 1884 Democratic National Convention An anti-Blaine cartoon presents him as the `` tattooed man, '' with many indelible scandals. An anti-Cleveland cartoon highlights the Halpin scandal. The Republicans convened in Chicago and nominated former Speaker of the House James G. Blaine of Maine for president on the fourth ballot. Blaine 's nomination alienated many Republicans who viewed Blaine as ambitious and immoral. The GOP standard bearer was weakened by alienating the Mugwumps, and the Conkling faction, recently disenfranchised by President Arthur. Democratic party leaders saw the Republicans ' choice as an opportunity to win the White House for the first time since 1856 if the right candidate could be found. Among the Democrats, Samuel J. Tilden was the initial front - runner, having been the party 's nominee in the contested election of 1876. After Tilden declined a nomination due to his poor health, his supporters shifted to several other contenders. Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, and Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons. Each of the other candidates had hindrances to his nomination : Bayard had spoken in favor of secession in 1861, making him unacceptable to Northerners ; Butler, conversely, was reviled throughout the South for his actions during the Civil War ; Thurman was generally well liked, but was growing old and infirm, and his views on the silver question were uncertain. Cleveland, too, had detractors -- Tammany remained opposed to him -- but the nature of his enemies made him still more friends. Cleveland led on the first ballot, with 392 votes out of 820. On the second ballot, Tammany threw its support behind Butler, but the rest of the delegates shifted to Cleveland, who won. Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana was selected as his running mate. Campaign against Blaine Corruption in politics was the central issue in 1884 ; indeed, Blaine had over the span of his career been involved in several questionable deals. Cleveland 's reputation as an opponent of corruption proved the Democrats ' strongest asset. William C. Hudson created Cleveland 's contextual campaign slogan `` A public office is a public trust. '' Reform - minded Republicans called `` Mugwumps '' denounced Blaine as corrupt and flocked to Cleveland. The Mugwumps, including such men as Carl Schurz and Henry Ward Beecher, were more concerned with morality than with party, and felt Cleveland was a kindred soul who would promote civil service reform and fight for efficiency in government. At the same time the Democrats gained support from the Mugwumps, they lost some blue - collar workers to the Greenback - Labor party, led by ex-Democrat Benjamin Butler. In general, Cleveland abided by the precedent of minimizing presidential campaign travel and speechmaking ; Blaine became one of the first to break with that tradition. The campaign focused on the candidates ' moral standards, as each side cast aspersions on their opponents. Cleveland 's supporters rehashed the old allegations that Blaine had corruptly influenced legislation in favor of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad and the Union Pacific Railway, later profiting on the sale of bonds he owned in both companies. Although the stories of Blaine 's favors to the railroads had made the rounds eight years earlier, this time Blaine 's correspondence was discovered, making his earlier denials less plausible. On some of the most damaging correspondence, Blaine had written `` Burn this letter '', giving Democrats the last line to their rallying cry : `` Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the state of Maine, ' Burn this letter ! '' Regarding Cleveland, commentator Jeff Jacoby notes that, `` Not since George Washington had a candidate for President been so renowned for his rectitude. '' But the Republicans found a refutation buried in Cleveland 's past. Aided by the sermons of Reverend George H. Ball, a minister from Buffalo, they made public the allegation that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer there, and their rallies soon included the chant `` Ma, Ma, where 's my Pa ? ''. When confronted with the scandal, Cleveland immediately instructed his supporters to `` Above all, tell the truth. '' Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who asserted he had fathered her son Oscar Folsom Cleveland and he assumed responsibility. Shortly before the 1884 election, the Republican media published an affidavit from Halpin in which she stated that until she met Cleveland, her `` life was pure and spotless '', and `` there is not, and never was, a doubt as to the paternity of our child, and the attempt of Grover Cleveland, or his friends, to couple the name of Oscar Folsom, or any one else, with that boy, for that purpose is simply infamous and false. '' Results of the 1884 election The electoral votes of closely contested New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Connecticut would determine the election. In New York, the Tammany Democrats decided that they would gain more from supporting a Democrat they disliked than a Republican who would do nothing for them. Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine 's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State. The Irish, a significant group in three of the swing states, did appear inclined to support Blaine until a Republican, Samuel D. Burchard, gave a speech pivotal for the Democrats, denouncing them as the party of `` Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. '' The Democrats spread the word of this implied Catholic insult on the eve of the election. They also blistered Blaine for attending a banquet with some of New York City 's wealthiest men. After the votes were counted, Cleveland narrowly won all four of the swing states, including New York by 1200 votes. While the popular vote total was close, with Cleveland winning by just one - quarter of a percent, the electoral votes gave Cleveland a majority of 219 -- 182. Following the electoral victory, the `` Ma, Ma... '' attack phrase gained a classic riposte : `` Gone to the White House. Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! '' First term as President ( 1885 -- 1889 ) Reform Cleveland portrayed as a tariff reformer Soon after taking office, Cleveland was faced with the task of filling all the government jobs for which the president had the power of appointment. These jobs were typically filled under the spoils system, but Cleveland announced that he would not fire any Republican who was doing his job well, and would not appoint anyone solely on the basis of party service. He also used his appointment powers to reduce the number of federal employees, as many departments had become bloated with political time - servers. Later in his term, as his fellow Democrats chafed at being excluded from the spoils, Cleveland began to replace more of the partisan Republican officeholders with Democrats ; this was especially the case with policy making positions. While some of his decisions were influenced by party concerns, more of Cleveland 's appointments were decided by merit alone than was the case in his predecessors ' administrations. Cleveland also reformed other parts of the government. In 1887, he signed an act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission. He and Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney undertook to modernize the navy and canceled construction contracts that had resulted in inferior ships. Cleveland angered railroad investors by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by government grant. Secretary of the Interior Lucius Q.C. Lamar charged that the rights of way for this land must be returned to the public because the railroads failed to extend their lines according to agreements. The lands were forfeited, resulting in the return of approximately 81,000,000 acres ( 330,000 km ). Cleveland was the first Democratic President subject to the Tenure of Office Act which originated in 1867 ; the act purported to require the Senate to approve the dismissal of any presidential appointee who was originally subject to its advice and consent. Cleveland objected to the act in principle and his steadfast refusal to abide by it prompted its fall into disfavor and led to its ultimate repeal in 1887. Vetoes BEP engraved portrait of Cleveland as president Cleveland faced a Republican Senate and often resorted to using his veto powers. He vetoed hundreds of private pension bills for American Civil War veterans, believing that if their pensions requests had already been rejected by the Pension Bureau, Congress should not attempt to override that decision. When Congress, pressured by the Grand Army of the Republic, passed a bill granting pensions for disabilities not caused by military service, Cleveland also vetoed that. Cleveland used the veto far more often than any president up to that time. In 1887, Cleveland issued his most well - known veto, that of the Texas Seed Bill. After a drought had ruined crops in several Texas counties, Congress appropriated $10,000 to purchase seed grain for farmers there. Cleveland vetoed the expenditure. In his veto message, he espoused a theory of limited government : I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow - citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood. Silver One of the most volatile issues of the 1880s was whether the currency should be backed by gold and silver, or by gold alone. The issue cut across party lines, with western Republicans and southern Democrats joining together in the call for the free coinage of silver, and both parties ' representatives in the northeast holding firm for the gold standard. Because silver was worth less than its legal equivalent in gold, taxpayers paid their government bills in silver, while international creditors demanded payment in gold, resulting in a depletion of the nation 's gold supply. Cleveland and Treasury Secretary Daniel Manning stood firmly on the side of the gold standard, and tried to reduce the amount of silver that the government was required to coin under the Bland - Allison Act of 1878. Cleveland unsuccessfully appealed to Congress to repeal this law before he was inaugurated. Angered Westerners and Southerners advocated for cheap money to help their poorer constituents. In reply, one of the foremost silverites, Richard P. Bland, introduced a bill in 1886 that would require the government to coin unlimited amounts of silver, inflating the then - deflating currency. While Bland 's bill was defeated, so was a bill the administration favored that would repeal any silver coinage requirement. The result was a retention of the status quo, and a postponement of the resolution of the Free Silver issue. Tariffs `` When we consider that the theory of our institutions guarantees to every citizen the full enjoyment of all the fruits of his industry and enterprise, with only such deduction as may be his share toward the careful and economical maintenance of the Government which protects him, it is plain that the exaction of more than this is indefensible extortion and a culpable betrayal of American fairness and justice... The public Treasury, which should only exist as a conduit conveying the people 's tribute to its legitimate objects of expenditure, becomes a hoarding place for money needlessly withdrawn from trade and the people 's use, thus crippling our national energies, suspending our country 's development, preventing investment in productive enterprise, threatening financial disturbance, and inviting schemes of public plunder. '' Cleveland 's third annual message to Congress, December 6, 1887. Another contentious financial issue at the time was the protective tariff. While it had not been a central point in his campaign, Cleveland 's opinion on the tariff was that of most Democrats : that the tariff ought to be reduced. Republicans generally favored a high tariff to protect American industries. American tariffs had been high since the Civil War, and by the 1880s the tariff brought in so much revenue that the government was running a surplus. In 1886, a bill to reduce the tariff was narrowly defeated in the House. The tariff issue was emphasized in the Congressional elections that year, and the forces of protectionism increased their numbers in the Congress, but Cleveland continued to advocate tariff reform. As the surplus grew, Cleveland and the reformers called for a tariff for revenue only. His message to Congress in 1887 ( quoted at right ) highlighted the injustice of taking more money from the people than the government needed to pay its operating expenses. Republicans, as well as protectionist northern Democrats like Samuel J. Randall, believed that American industries would fail without high tariffs, and they continued to fight reform efforts. Roger Q. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, proposed a bill to reduce the tariff from about 47 % to about 40 %. After significant exertions by Cleveland and his allies, the bill passed the House. The Republican Senate failed to come to agreement with the Democratic House, and the bill died in the conference committee. Dispute over the tariff persisted into the 1888 presidential election. Foreign Policy, 1885 -- 1889 Cleveland was a committed non-interventionist who had campaigned in opposition to expansion and imperialism. He refused to promote the previous administration 's Nicaragua canal treaty, and generally was less of an expansionist in foreign relations. Cleveland 's Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, negotiated with Joseph Chamberlain of the United Kingdom over fishing rights in the waters off Canada, and struck a conciliatory note, despite the opposition of New England 's Republican Senators. Cleveland also withdrew from Senate consideration the Berlin Conference treaty which guaranteed an open door for U.S. interests in the Congo. Military Policy, 1885 -- 1889 Cleveland 's military policy emphasized self - defense and modernization. In 1885 Cleveland appointed the Board of Fortifications under Secretary of War William C. Endicott to recommend a new coastal fortification system for the United States. No improvements to US coastal defenses had been made since the late 1870s. The Board 's 1886 report recommended a massive $127 million construction program at 29 harbors and river estuaries, to include new breech - loading rifled guns, mortars, and naval minefields. The Board and the program are usually called the Endicott Board and the Endicott Program. Most of the Board 's recommendations were implemented, and by 1910, 27 locations were defended by over 70 forts. Many of the weapons remained in place until scrapped in World War II as they were replaced with new defenses. Endicott also proposed to Congress a system of examinations for Army officer promotions. For the Navy, the Cleveland administration spearheaded by Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney moved towards modernization, although no ships were constructed that could match the best European warships. Although completion of the four steel - hulled warships begun under the previous administration was delayed due to a corruption investigation and subsequent bankruptcy of their building yard, these ships were completed in a timely manner in naval shipyards once the investigation was over. Sixteen additional steel - hulled warships were ordered by the end of 1888 ; these ships later proved vital in the Spanish -- American War of 1898, and many served in World War I. These ships included the `` second - class battleships '' Maine and Texas, designed to match modern armored ships recently acquired by South American countries from Europe, such as the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo. Eleven protected cruisers ( including the famous Olympia ), one armored cruiser, and one monitor were also ordered, along with the experimental cruiser Vesuvius. Civil rights and immigration Cleveland, like a growing number of Northerners ( and nearly all white Southerners ) saw Reconstruction as a failed experiment, and was reluctant to use federal power to enforce the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed voting rights to African Americans. Though Cleveland appointed no black Americans to patronage jobs, he allowed Frederick Douglass to continue in his post as recorder of deeds in Washington, D.C. and appointed another black man ( James Campbell Matthews, a former New York judge ) to replace Douglass upon his resignation. His decision to replace Douglass with a black man was met with outrage, but Cleveland claimed to have known Matthews personally. Although Cleveland had condemned the `` outrages '' against Chinese immigrants, he believed that Chinese immigrants were unwilling to assimilate into white society. Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard negotiated an extension to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and Cleveland lobbied the Congress to pass the Scott Act, written by Congressman William Lawrence Scott, which prevented the return of Chinese immigrants who left the United States. The Scott Act easily passed both houses of Congress, and Cleveland signed it into law on October 1, 1888. Indian Policy Henry L. Dawes wrote the Dawes Act, which Cleveland signed into law. Cleveland viewed Native Americans as wards of the state, saying in his first inaugural address that `` ( t ) his guardianship involves, on our part, efforts for the improvement of their condition and enforcement of their rights. '' He encouraged the idea of cultural assimilation, pushing for the passage of the Dawes Act, which provided for distribution of Indian lands to individual members of tribes, rather than having them continued to be held in trust for the tribes by the federal government. While a conference of Native leaders endorsed the act, in practice the majority of Native Americans disapproved of it. Cleveland believed the Dawes Act would lift Native Americans out of poverty and encourage their assimilation into white society. It ultimately weakened the tribal governments and allowed individual Indians to sell land and keep the money. In the month before Cleveland 's 1885 inauguration, President Arthur opened four million acres of Winnebago and Crow Creek Indian lands in the Dakota Territory to white settlement by executive order. Tens of thousands of settlers gathered at the border of these lands and prepared to take possession of them. Cleveland believed Arthur 's order to be in violation of treaties with the tribes, and rescinded it on April 17 of that year, ordering the settlers out of the territory. Cleveland sent in eighteen companies of Army troops to enforce the treaties and ordered General Philip Sheridan, at the time Commanding General of the U.S. Army, to investigate the matter. Marriage and children Frances Folsom Cleveland Cleveland entered the White House as a bachelor, and his sister Rose Cleveland joined him, to act as hostess for the first two years of his administration. Unlike the previous bachelor president James Buchanan, Cleveland did not remain a bachelor for long. In 1885 the daughter of Cleveland 's friend Oscar Folsom visited him in Washington. Frances Folsom was a student at Wells College. When she returned to school, President Cleveland received her mother 's permission to correspond with her, and they were soon engaged to be married. On June 2, 1886, Cleveland married Frances Folsom in the Blue Room at the White House. He was the second president to wed while in office, and has been the only president married in the White House. This marriage was unusual, since Cleveland was the executor of Oscar Folsom 's estate and had supervised Frances 's upbringing after her father 's death ; nevertheless, the public took no exception to the match. At 21 years, Frances Folsom Cleveland was the youngest First Lady in history, and the public soon warmed to her beauty and warm personality. The Clevelands had five children : Ruth ( 1891 -- 1904 ), Esther ( 1893 -- 1980 ), Marion ( 1895 -- 1977 ), Richard ( 1897 -- 1974 ), and Francis Grover ( 1903 -- 1995 ). British philosopher Philippa Foot was their granddaughter. Administration and Cabinet Cleveland 's first Cabinet. Front row, left to right : Thomas F. Bayard, Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Lucius Q.C. Lamar Back row, left to right : William F. Vilas, William C. Whitney, William C. Endicott, Augustus H. Garland The First Cleveland Cabinet Office Name Term President Grover Cleveland 1885 -- 1889 Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks 1885 None 1885 -- 1889 Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard 1885 -- 1889 Secretary of Treasury Daniel Manning 1885 -- 1887 Charles S. Fairchild 1887 -- 1889 Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott 1885 -- 1889 Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland 1885 -- 1889 Postmaster General William Freeman Vilas 1885 -- 1888 Donald M. Dickinson 1888 -- 1889 Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney 1885 -- 1889 Secretary of the Interior Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II 1885 -- 1888 William Freeman Vilas 1888 -- 1889 Secretary of Agriculture Norman Jay Coleman 1889 Judicial appointments Main article : List of federal judges appointed by Grover Cleveland Chief Justice Melville Fuller During his first term, Cleveland successfully nominated two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, was a former Mississippi Senator who served in Cleveland 's Cabinet as Interior Secretary. When William Burnham Woods died, Cleveland nominated Lamar to his seat in late 1887. While Lamar had been well liked as a Senator, his service under the Confederacy two decades earlier caused many Republicans to vote against him. Lamar 's nomination was confirmed by the narrow margin of 32 to 28. Chief Justice Morrison Waite died a few months later, and Cleveland nominated Melville Fuller to fill his seat on April 30, 1888. Fuller accepted. He had previously declined Cleveland 's nomination to the Civil Service Commission, preferring his Chicago law practice. The Senate Judiciary Committee spent several months examining the little - known nominee, before the Senate confirmed the nomination 41 to 20. Cleveland nominated 41 lower federal court judges in addition to his four Supreme Court justices. These included two judges to the United States circuit courts, nine judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 30 judges to the United States district courts. Because Cleveland served terms both before and after Congress eliminated the circuit courts in favor of the Courts of Appeals, he is one of only two presidents to have appointed judges to both bodies. The other, Benjamin Harrison, was in office at the time that the change was made. Thus, all of Cleveland 's appointments to the circuit courts were made in his first term, and all of his appointments to the Courts of Appeals were made in his second. Election of 1888 and return to private life Defeated by Harrison Main articles : United States presidential election, 1888 and Grover Cleveland Presidential campaign, 1888 Cleveland -- Thurman campaign poster Results of the 1888 Election The Republicans nominated Benjamin Harrison of Indiana for president and Levi P. Morton of New York for vice president. Cleveland was easily renominated at the Democratic convention in St. Louis. Following Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks death in 1885, the Democrats chose Allen G. Thurman of Ohio to be Cleveland 's new running mate. The Republicans gained the upper hand in the campaign, as Cleveland 's campaign was poorly managed by Calvin S. Brice and William H. Barnum, whereas Harrison had engaged more aggressive fundraisers and tacticians in Matt Quay and John Wanamaker. The Republicans campaigned heavily on the tariff issue, turning out protectionist voters in the important industrial states of the North. Further, the Democrats in New York were divided over the gubernatorial candidacy of David B. Hill, weakening Cleveland 's support in that swing state. A letter from the British ambassador supporting Cleveland caused a scandal which cost Cleveland votes in New York. As in 1884, the election focused on the swing states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Indiana. But unlike that year, when Cleveland had triumphed in all four, in 1888 he won only two, losing his home state of New York by 14,373 votes. The Republicans won Indiana, largely as the result of a fraudulent voting practice known as Blocks of Five. Cleveland continued his duties diligently until the end of the term and began to look forward to return to private life. Private citizen for four years As Frances Cleveland left the White House, she told a staff member, `` Now, Jerry, I want you to take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house, for I want to find everything just as it is now, when we come back again. '' When asked when she would return, she responded, `` We are coming back four years from today. '' In the meantime, the Clevelands moved to New York City, where Cleveland took a position with the law firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, and MacVeigh. This affiliation was more of an office - sharing arrangement, though quite compatible. Cleveland 's law practice brought only a moderate income, perhaps because Cleveland spent considerable time at the couple 's vacation home Gray Gables at Buzzard Bay, where fishing became his obsession. While they lived in New York, the Clevelands ' first child, Ruth, was born in 1891. The Harrison administration worked with Congress to pass the McKinley Tariff, an aggressively protectionist measure and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which increased money backed by silver ; these were among policies Cleveland deplored as dangerous to the nation 's financial health. At first he refrained from criticizing his successor, but by 1891 Cleveland felt compelled to speak out, addressing his concerns in an open letter to a meeting of reformers in New York. The `` silver letter '' thrust Cleveland 's name back into the spotlight just as the 1892 election was approaching. Election of 1892 Main articles : United States presidential election, 1892 and Grover Cleveland Presidential campaign, 1892 Democratic nomination Cleveland 's enduring reputation as chief executive and his recent pronouncements on the monetary issues made him a leading contender for the Democratic nomination. His leading opponent was David B. Hill, a Senator for New York. Hill united the anti-Cleveland elements of the Democratic party -- silverites, protectionists, and Tammany Hall -- but was unable to create a coalition large enough to deny Cleveland the nomination. Despite some desperate maneuvering by Hill, Cleveland was nominated on the first ballot at the convention in Chicago. For vice president, the Democrats chose to balance the ticket with Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, a silverite. Although the Cleveland forces preferred Isaac P. Gray of Indiana for vice president, they accepted the convention favorite. As a supporter of greenbacks and Free Silver to inflate the currency and alleviate economic distress in the rural districts, Stevenson balanced the otherwise hard - money, gold - standard ticket headed by Cleveland. Campaign against Harrison Results of the 1892 election The Republicans re-nominated President Harrison, making the 1892 election a rematch of the one four years earlier. Unlike the turbulent and controversial elections of 1876, 1884, and 1888, the 1892 election was, according to Cleveland biographer Allan Nevins, `` the cleanest, quietest, and most creditable in the memory of the post-war generation, '' in part because Harrison 's wife, Caroline, was dying of tuberculosis. Harrison did not personally campaign at all. Following Caroline Harrison 's death on October 25, two weeks before the national election, Cleveland and all of the other candidates stopped campaigning, thus making Election Day a somber and quiet event for the whole country as well as the candidates. The issue of the tariff worked to the Republicans ' advantage in 1888. The legislative revisions of the past four years also made imported goods so expensive that now many voters favored tariff reform and were skeptical of big business. Many Westerners, traditionally Republican voters, defected to James Weaver, the candidate of the new Populist Party. Weaver promised Free Silver, generous veterans ' pensions, and an eight - hour work day. The Tammany Hall Democrats adhered to the national ticket, allowing a united Democratic party to carry New York. At the campaign 's end, many Populists and labor supporters endorsed Cleveland after an attempt by the Carnegie Corporation to break the union during the Homestead strike in Pittsburgh and after a similar conflict between big business and labor at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. The final result was a victory for Cleveland by wide margins in both the popular and electoral votes, and it was Cleveland 's third consecutive popular vote plurality. Second term as President ( 1893 -- 1897 ) Economic panic and the silver issue Shortly after Cleveland 's second term began, the Panic of 1893 struck the stock market, and he soon faced an acute economic depression. The panic was worsened by the acute shortage of gold that resulted from the increased coinage of silver, and Cleveland called Congress into special session to deal with the problem. The debate over the coinage was as heated as ever, and the effects of the panic had driven more moderates to support repealing the coinage provisions of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Even so, the silverites rallied their following at a convention in Chicago, and the House of Representatives debated for fifteen weeks before passing the repeal by a considerable margin. In the Senate, the repeal of silver coinage was equally contentious. Cleveland, forced against his better judgment to lobby the Congress for repeal, convinced enough Democrats -- and along with eastern Republicans, they formed a 48 -- 37 majority for repeal. Depletion of the Treasury 's gold reserves continued, at a lesser rate, and subsequent bond issues replenished supplies of gold. At the time the repeal seemed a minor setback to silverites, but it marked the beginning of the end of silver as a basis for American currency. Tariff reform Cleveland 's humiliation by Gorman and the sugar trust Having succeeded in reversing the Harrison administration 's silver policy, Cleveland sought next to reverse the effects of the McKinley tariff. The Wilson - Gorman Tariff Act was introduced by West Virginian Representative William L. Wilson in December 1893. After lengthy debate, the bill passed the House by a considerable margin. The bill proposed moderate downward revisions in the tariff, especially on raw materials. The shortfall in revenue was to be made up by an income tax of two percent on income above $4,000 ( US $109,000 today ). The bill was next considered in the Senate, where it faced stronger opposition from key Democrats led by Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, who insisted on more protection for their states ' industries than the Wilson bill allowed. The bill passed the Senate with more than 600 amendments attached that nullified most of the reforms. The Sugar Trust in particular lobbied for changes that favored it at the expense of the consumer. Cleveland was outraged with the final bill, and denounced it as a disgraceful product of the control of the Senate by trusts and business interests. Even so, he believed it was an improvement over the McKinley tariff and allowed it to become law without his signature. Voting rights In 1892, Cleveland had campaigned against the Lodge Bill, which would have strengthened voting rights protections through the appointing of federal supervisors of congressional elections upon a petition from the citizens of any district. The Enforcement Act of 1871 had provided for a detailed federal overseeing of the electoral process, from registration to the certification of returns. Cleveland succeeded in ushering in the 1894 repeal of this law ( ch. 25, 28 Stat. 36 ). The pendulum thus swung from stronger attempts to protect voting rights to the repealing of voting rights protections ; this in turn led to unsuccessful attempts to have the federal courts protect voting rights in Giles v. Harris, 189 U.S. 475 ( 1903 ), and Giles v. Teasley, 193 U.S. 146 ( 1904 ). Labor unrest John T. Morgan, Senator from Alabama, opposed Cleveland on Free Silver, the tariff, and the Hawaii treaty, saying of Cleveland that `` I hate the ground that man walks on. '' The Panic of 1893 had damaged labor conditions across the United States, and the victory of anti-silver legislation worsened the mood of western laborers. A group of workingmen led by Jacob S. Coxey began to march east toward Washington, D.C. to protest Cleveland 's policies. This group, known as Coxey 's Army, agitated in favor of a national roads program to give jobs to workingmen, and a weakened currency to help farmers pay their debts. By the time they reached Washington, only a few hundred remained, and when they were arrested the next day for walking on the lawn of the United States Capitol, the group scattered. Even though Coxey 's Army may not have been a threat to the government, it signaled a growing dissatisfaction in the West with Eastern monetary policies. Pullman strike Main article : Pullman strike The Pullman Strike had a significantly greater impact than Coxey 's Army. A strike began against the Pullman Company over low wages and twelve - hour workdays, and sympathy strikes, led by American Railway Union leader Eugene V. Debs, soon followed. By June 1894, 125,000 railroad workers were on strike, paralyzing the nation 's commerce. Because the railroads carried the mail, and because several of the affected lines were in federal receivership, Cleveland believed a federal solution was appropriate. Cleveland obtained an injunction in federal court, and when the strikers refused to obey it, he sent federal troops into Chicago and 20 other rail centers. `` If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a postcard in Chicago '', he proclaimed, `` that card will be delivered. '' Most governors supported Cleveland except Democrat John P. Altgeld of Illinois, who became his bitter foe in 1896. Leading newspapers of both parties applauded Cleveland 's actions, but the use of troops hardened the attitude of organized labor toward his administration. Just before the 1894 election, Cleveland was warned by Francis Lynde Stetson, an advisor : `` We are on the eve of ( a ) very dark night, unless a return of commercial prosperity relieves popular discontent with what they believe ( is ) Democratic incompetence to make laws, and consequently ( discontent ) with Democratic Administrations anywhere and everywhere. '' The warning was appropriate, for in the Congressional elections, Republicans won their biggest landslide in decades, taking full control of the House, while the Populists lost most of their support. Cleveland 's factional enemies gained control of the Democratic Party in state after state, including full control in Illinois and Michigan, and made major gains in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and other states. Wisconsin and Massachusetts were two of the few states that remained under the control of Cleveland 's allies. The Democratic opposition were close to controlling two - thirds of the vote at the 1896 national convention, which they needed to nominate their own candidate. They failed for lack of unity and a national leader, as Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld had been born in Germany and was ineligible to be nominated for president. Foreign Policy, 1893 -- 1897 Further information : Venezuela Crisis of 1895 `` I suppose that right and justice should determine the path to be followed in treating this subject. If national honesty is to be disregarded and a desire for territorial expansion or dissatisfaction with a form of government not our own ought to regulate our conduct, I have entirely misapprehended the mission and character of our government and the behavior which the conscience of the people demands of their public servants. '' Cleveland 's message to Congress on the Hawaiian question, December 18, 1893. When Cleveland took office he faced the question of Hawaiian annexation. In his first term, he had supported free trade with Hawai'i and accepted an amendment that gave the United States a coaling and naval station in Pearl Harbor. In the intervening four years, Honolulu businessmen of European and American ancestry had denounced Queen Liliuokalani as a tyrant who rejected constitutional government. In early 1893 they overthrew her, set up a republican government under Sanford B. Dole, and sought to join the United States. The Harrison administration had quickly agreed with representatives of the new government on a treaty of annexation and submitted it to the Senate for approval. Five days after taking office on March 9, 1893, Cleveland withdrew the treaty from the Senate and sent former Congressman James Henderson Blount to Hawai'i to investigate the conditions there. Cleveland agreed with Blount 's report, which found the populace to be opposed to annexation. Liliuokalani initially refused to grant amnesty as a condition of her reinstatement, saying that she would either execute or banish the current government in Honolulu, but Dole 's government refused to yield their position. By December 1893, the matter was still unresolved, and Cleveland referred the issue to Congress. In his message to Congress, Cleveland rejected the idea of annexation and encouraged the Congress to continue the American tradition of non-intervention ( see excerpt at right ). The Senate, under Democratic control but opposed to Cleveland, commissioned and produced the Morgan Report, which contradicted Blount 's findings and found the overthrow was a completely internal affair. Cleveland dropped all talk of reinstating the Queen, and went on to recognize and maintain diplomatic relations with the new Republic of Hawaii. Closer to home, Cleveland adopted a broad interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine that not only prohibited new European colonies, but also declared an American national interest in any matter of substance within the hemisphere. When Britain and Venezuela disagreed over the boundary between Venezuela and the colony of British Guiana, Cleveland and Secretary of State Richard Olney protested. British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury and the British ambassador to Washington, Julian Pauncefote, misjudged how important successful resolution of the dispute was to the American government, having prolonged the crisis before ultimately accepting the American demand for arbitration. A tribunal convened in Paris in 1898 to decide the matter, and in 1899 awarded the bulk of the disputed territory to British Guiana. But by standing with a Latin American nation against the encroachment of a colonial power, Cleveland improved relations with the United States ' southern neighbors, and at the same time, the cordial manner in which the negotiations were conducted also made for good relations with Britain. Military Policy, 1893 -- 1897 The second Cleveland administration was as committed to military modernization as the first, and ordered the first ships of a navy capable of offensive action. Construction continued on the Endicott program of coastal fortifications begun under Cleveland 's first administration. The adoption of the Krag -- Jørgensen rifle, the US Army 's first bolt - action repeating rifle, was finalized. In 1895 -- 96 Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert, having recently adopted the aggressive naval strategy advocated by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, successfully proposed ordering five battleships ( the Kearsarge and Illinois classes ) and sixteen torpedo boats. Completion of these ships nearly doubled the Navy 's battleships and created a new torpedo boat force, which previously had only two boats. The battleships and seven of the torpedo boats were not completed until 1899 -- 1901, after the Spanish -- American War. Cancer Oil painting of Grover Cleveland, painted in 1899 by Anders Zorn In the midst of the fight for repeal of Free Silver coinage in 1893, Cleveland sought the advice of the White House doctor, Dr. O'Reilly, about soreness on the roof of his mouth and a crater - like edge ulcer with a granulated surface on the left side of Cleveland 's hard palate. Samples of the tumor were sent anonymously to the Army Medical Museum. The diagnosis was not a malignant cancer, but instead an epithelioma. Cleveland decided to have surgery secretly, to avoid further panic that might worsen the financial depression. The surgery occurred on July 1, to give Cleveland time to make a full recovery in time for the upcoming Congressional session. Under the guise of a vacation cruise, Cleveland and his surgeon, Dr. Joseph Bryant, left for New York. The surgeons operated aboard the Oneida, a yacht owned by Cleveland 's friend E.C. Benedict, as it sailed off Long Island. The surgery was conducted through the President 's mouth, to avoid any scars or other signs of surgery. The team, sedating Cleveland with nitrous oxide and ether, successfully removed parts of his upper left jaw and hard palate. The size of the tumor and the extent of the operation left Cleveland 's mouth disfigured. During another surgery, Cleveland was fitted with a hard rubber dental prosthesis that corrected his speech and restored his appearance. A cover story about the removal of two bad teeth kept the suspicious press placated. Even when a newspaper story appeared giving details of the actual operation, the participating surgeons discounted the severity of what transpired during Cleveland 's vacation. In 1917, one of the surgeons present on the Oneida, Dr. William W. Keen, wrote an article detailing the operation. Cleveland enjoyed many years of life after the tumor was removed, and there was some debate as to whether it was actually malignant. Several doctors, including Dr. Keen, stated after Cleveland 's death that the tumor was a carcinoma. Other suggestions included ameloblastoma or a benign salivary mixed tumor ( also known as a pleomorphic adenoma ). In the 1980s, analysis of the specimen finally confirmed the tumor to be verrucous carcinoma, a low - grade epithelial cancer with a low potential for metastasis. Administration and cabinet Cleveland 's last Cabinet. Front row, left to right : Daniel S. Lamont, Richard Olney, Cleveland, John G. Carlisle, Judson Harmon Back row, left to right : David R. Francis, William Lyne Wilson, Hilary A. Herbert, Julius S. Morton The Second Cleveland Cabinet Office Name Term President Grover Cleveland 1893 -- 1897 Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I 1893 -- 1897 Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham 1893 -- 1895 Richard Olney 1895 -- 1897 Secretary of Treasury John G. Carlisle 1893 -- 1897 Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont 1893 -- 1897 Attorney General Richard Olney 1893 -- 1895 Judson Harmon 1895 -- 1897 Postmaster General Wilson S. Bissell 1893 -- 1895 William Lyne Wilson 1895 -- 1897 Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert 1893 -- 1897 Secretary of the Interior M. Hoke Smith 1893 -- 1896 David R. Francis 1896 -- 1897 Secretary of Agriculture Julius S. Morton 1893 -- 1897 Judicial appointments Main article : List of federal judges appointed by Grover Cleveland Cleveland 's trouble with the Senate hindered the success of his nominations to the Supreme Court in his second term. In 1893, after the death of Samuel Blatchford, Cleveland nominated William B. Hornblower to the Court. Hornblower, the head of a New York City law firm, was thought to be a qualified appointee, but his campaign against a New York machine politician had made Senator David B. Hill his enemy. Further, Cleveland had not consulted the Senators before naming his appointee, leaving many who were already opposed to Cleveland on other grounds even more aggrieved. The Senate rejected Hornblower 's nomination on January 15, 1894, by a vote of 30 to 24. Cleveland continued to defy the Senate by next appointing Wheeler Hazard Peckham another New York attorney who had opposed Hill 's machine in that state. Hill used all of his influence to block Peckham 's confirmation, and on February 16, 1894, the Senate rejected the nomination by a vote of 32 to 41. Reformers urged Cleveland to continue the fight against Hill and to nominate Frederic R. Coudert, but Cleveland acquiesced in an inoffensive choice, that of Senator Edward Douglass White of Louisiana, whose nomination was accepted unanimously. Later, in 1896, another vacancy on the Court led Cleveland to consider Hornblower again, but he declined to be nominated. Instead, Cleveland nominated Rufus Wheeler Peckham, the brother of Wheeler Hazard Peckham, and the Senate confirmed the second Peckham easily. States admitted to the Union No new states were admitted to the Union during Cleveland 's first term. On February 22, 1889, 10 days before leaving office, the 50th Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1889, authorizing North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form state governments and to gain admission to the Union. All four officially became states in November 1889, during the first year of Benjamin Harrison 's administration. During his second term, the 53rd United States Congress passed an Enabling Act that permitted Utah to apply for statehood. Cleveland signed it on July 16, 1894. Utah joined the Union as the 45th state on January 4, 1896. 1896 election and retirement Cleveland in 1903 at age 66 by Frederick Gutekunst Cleveland 's agrarian and silverite enemies gained control of the Democratic party in 1896, repudiated his administration and the gold standard, and nominated William Jennings Bryan on a Silver Platform. Cleveland silently supported the Gold Democrats ' third - party ticket that promised to defend the gold standard, limit government and oppose high tariffs, but he declined their nomination for a third term. The party won only 100,000 votes in the general election, and William McKinley, the Republican nominee, triumphed easily over Bryan. Agrarians nominated Bryan again in 1900. In 1904 the conservatives, with Cleveland 's support, regained control of the Democratic Party and nominated Alton B. Parker. Outgoing President Grover Cleveland, at right, stands nearby as William McKinley is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Melville Fuller. After leaving the White House on March 4, 1897, Cleveland lived in retirement at his estate, Westland Mansion, in Princeton, New Jersey. For a time he was a trustee of Princeton University, and was one of the majority of trustees who preferred Dean West 's plans for the Graduate School and undergraduate living over those of Woodrow Wilson, then president of the university. Cleveland consulted occasionally with President Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901 -- 1909 ), but was financially unable to accept the chairmanship of the commission handling the Coal Strike of 1902. Cleveland still made his views known in political matters. In a 1905 article in The Ladies Home Journal, Cleveland weighed in on the women 's suffrage movement, writing that `` sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by men and women in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence. '' In 1906, a group of New Jersey Democrats promoted Cleveland as a possible candidate for the United States Senate. The incumbent, John F. Dryden, was not seeking re-election, and some Democrats felt that the former president could attract the votes of some disaffected Republican legislators who might be drawn to Cleveland 's statesmanship and conservatism. Cleveland 's health had been declining for several years, and in the autumn of 1907 he fell seriously ill. In 1908, he suffered a heart attack and died on June 24 at age 71. His last words were, `` I have tried so hard to do right. '' He is buried in the Princeton Cemetery of the Nassau Presbyterian Church. Honors and memorials $1000 Gold Certificate ( 1934 ) depicting Grover Cleveland Cleveland postage stamp issued in 1923 In his first term in office, Cleveland sought a summer house to escape the heat and smells of Washington, D.C., near enough the capital. He secretly bought a farmhouse, Oak View ( or Oak Hill ), in a rural upland part of the District of Columbia, in 1886, and remodeled it into a Queen Anne style summer estate. He sold Oak View upon losing his bid for re-election in 1888. Not long thereafter, suburban residential development reached the area, which came to be known as Oak View, and then Cleveland Heights, and eventually Cleveland Park. The Clevelands are depicted in local murals. Grover Cleveland Hall at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York. Cleveland Hall houses the offices of the college president, vice presidents, and other administrative functions and student services. Cleveland was a member of the first board of directors of the then Buffalo Normal School. Grover Cleveland Middle School in his birthplace, Caldwell, New Jersey, was named for him, as is Grover Cleveland High School in Buffalo, New York, and the town of Cleveland, Mississippi. Mount Cleveland, a volcano in Alaska, is also named after him. In 1895 he became the first U.S. President who was filmed. The first U.S. postage stamp to honor Cleveland appeared in 1923. This twelve - cent issue accompanied a thirteen - cent stamp in the same definitive series that depicted his old rival Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland 's only two subsequent stamp appearances have been in issues devoted to the full roster of U.S. Presidents, released, respectively, in 1938 and 1986. Cleveland 's portrait was on the U.S. $1000 bill of series 1928 and series 1934. He also appeared on the first few issues of the $20 Federal Reserve Notes from 1914. Since he was both the 22nd and 24th president, he was featured on two separate dollar coins released in 2012 as part of the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005. In 2013, Cleveland was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. See also Grover Cleveland Birthplace Presidencies of Grover Cleveland Child with Maria Halpin Children with Frances Cleveland Notes Jump up ^ He was therefore the only person to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. Jump up ^ Blum, 527 Jump up ^ Jeffers, 8 -- 12 ; Nevins, 4 -- 5 ; Beito and Beito Jump up ^ McFarland, 11 -- 56 Jump up ^ Gould, passim ^ Jump up to : Tugwell, 220 -- 249 Jump up ^ Nevins, 4 Jump up ^ President - Making in the Gilded Age : The Nominating Conventions of 1876 -- 1900 by Stan M. Haynes page 2 Jump up ^ Nevins, 8 -- 10 Jump up ^ Graff, 3 -- 4 ; Nevins, 8 -- 10 Jump up ^ Graff, 3 -- 4 Jump up ^ Nevins, 6 Jump up ^ Nevins, 9 Jump up ^ Graff, 7 Jump up ^ Nevins, 10 ; Graff, 3 Jump up ^ Nevins, 11 ; Graff, 8 -- 9 Jump up ^ Nevins, 11 Jump up ^ Jeffers, 17 Jump up ^ Nevins, 17 -- 19 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 14 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 21 Jump up ^ Nevins, 18 -- 19 ; Jeffers, 19 Jump up ^ Nevins, 23 -- 27 Jump up ^ Nevins, 27 -- 33 Jump up ^ Nevins, 31 -- 36 Jump up ^ Graff, 11 ^ Jump up to : Graff, 14 Jump up ^ Graff, 14 -- 15 Jump up ^ Graff, 15 ; Nevins, 46 Jump up ^ Graff, 14 ; Nevins, 51 -- 52. Benninsky survived the war. ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 52 -- 53 Jump up ^ Nevins, 54 Jump up ^ Nevins, 54 -- 55 Jump up ^ Nevins, 55 -- 56 Jump up ^ Nevins, 56 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 26 Jump up ^ Nevins, 44 -- 45 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 32 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 58 Jump up ^ Jeffers, 33 ^ Jump up to : Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. `` Consumer Price Index ( estimate ) 1800 -- ''. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved January 2, 2018. Jump up ^ Tugwell, 36 ^ Jump up to : Jeffers, 34 ; Nevins, 61 -- 62 Jump up ^ `` The Execution of John Gaffney ''. The Buffalonian. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2008. Jump up ^ Jeffers, 36 ; Nevins, 64 Jump up ^ Nevins, 66 -- 71 Jump up ^ Nevins, 78 Jump up ^ http://www.newsweek.com/how-many-presidents-have-been-accused-sexual-assault-692766 Jump up ^ https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/wjeeyx/grover-cleveland-a-rapist-president ^ Jump up to : Henry F. Graff ( 2002 ). Grover Cleveland : The American Presidents Series : The 22nd and 24th President, 1885 -- 1889 and 1893 -- 1897. Henry Holt and Company. pp. 61 -- 63. ISBN 9780805069235. Jump up ^ Nevins, 79 ; Graff, 18 -- 19 ; Jeffers, 42 -- 45 ; Welch, 24 Jump up ^ Nevins, 79 -- 80 ; Graff, 18 -- 19 ; Welch, 24 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 80 -- 81 Jump up ^ Nevins, 83 Jump up ^ Graff, 19 ; Jeffers, 46 -- 50 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 84 -- 86 Jump up ^ Nevins, 85 Jump up ^ Nevins, 86 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 58 Jump up ^ Nevins, 94 -- 95 ; Jeffers, 50 -- 51 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 94 -- 99 ; Graff, 26 -- 27 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 68 -- 70 Jump up ^ Graff, 26 ; Nevins, 101 -- 103 Jump up ^ Nevins, 103 -- 104 Jump up ^ Nevins, 105 Jump up ^ Graff, 28 Jump up ^ Graff, 35 Jump up ^ Graff, 35 -- 36 Jump up ^ Nevins, 114 -- 116 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 116 -- 117 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 117 -- 118 Jump up ^ Nevins, 125 -- 126 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 77 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 73 Jump up ^ Nevins, 138 -- 140 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 185 -- 186 ; Jeffers, 96 -- 97 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 88 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 146 -- 147 Jump up ^ Nevins, 147 Jump up ^ Nevins, 152 -- 153 ; Graff, 51 -- 53 Jump up ^ Nevins, 153 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 154 ; Graff, 53 -- 54 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 80 Jump up ^ Summers, passim ; Grossman, 31 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 84 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 156 -- 159 ; Graff, 55 Jump up ^ Nevins, 187 -- 188 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 93 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 159 -- 162 ; Graff, 59 -- 60 Jump up ^ Graff, 59 ; Jeffers, 111 ; Nevins, 177, Welch, 34 Jump up ^ Jeff Jacoby, `` ' Grover the good ' -- the most honest president of them all '', Boston Globe Feb. 15. 2 -- 15 Jump up ^ Lachman, Charles ( 2011 ). `` Chapter 9 -- A Terrible Tale ''. A Secret Life : The Sex, Lies, and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland. Skyhorse Publishing. pp. 195 -- 216. Retrieved October 14, 2016. Jump up ^ Tugwell, 90 Jump up ^ Lachman, Charles ( 2011 ). A Secret Life : The Sex, Lies, and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland. Skyhorse Publishing. pp. 285 -- 288. Jump up ^ Welch, 33 Jump up ^ Nevins, 170 -- 171 Jump up ^ Nevins, 170 Jump up ^ Nevins, 181 -- 184 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 94 -- 95 ^ Jump up to : Leip, David. `` 1884 Presidential Election Results ''. Dave Leip 's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved January 27, 2008., `` Electoral College Box Scores 1789 -- 1996 ''. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved January 27, 2008. Jump up ^ Graff, 64 Jump up ^ Nevins, 208 -- 211 Jump up ^ Nevins, 214 -- 217 Jump up ^ Graff, 83 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 100 Jump up ^ Nevins, 238 -- 241 ; Welch, 59 -- 60 Jump up ^ Nevins, 354 -- 357 ; Graff, 85 Jump up ^ Nevins, 217 -- 223 ; Graff, 77 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 223 -- 228 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 130 -- 134 Jump up ^ Graff, 85 Jump up ^ Nevins, 326 -- 328 ; Graff, 83 -- 84 Jump up ^ Nevins, 300 -- 331 ; Graff, 83 Jump up ^ See List of United States presidential vetoes ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 331 -- 332 ; Graff, 85 Jump up ^ `` Cleveland 's Veto of the Texas Seed Bill ''. The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland. New York : Cassell Publishing Co. 1892. p. 450. ISBN 0 - 217 - 89899 - 8. Jump up ^ Jeffers, 157 -- 158 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 201 -- 205 ; Graff, 102 -- 103 Jump up ^ Nevins, 269 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 110 Jump up ^ Nevins, 268 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 273 Jump up ^ Nevins, 277 -- 279 Jump up ^ The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland. New York : Cassell Publishing Co. 1892. pp. 72 -- 73. ISBN 0 - 217 - 89899 - 8. ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 280 -- 282, Reitano, 46 -- 62 Jump up ^ Nevins, 286 -- 287 Jump up ^ Nevins, 287 -- 288 Jump up ^ Nevins, 290 -- 296 ; Graff, 87 -- 88 Jump up ^ Nevins, 370 -- 371 Jump up ^ Nevins, 379 -- 381 Jump up ^ Nevins, 383 -- 385 ^ Jump up to : Graff, 88 -- 89 Jump up ^ Nevins, 205, 404 -- 405 Jump up ^ Nevins, 404 -- 413 ^ Jump up to : Zakaria, 80 ^ Jump up to : Berhow, pp. 9 -- 10 ^ Jump up to : Endicott and Taft Boards at the Coast Defense Study Group website Archived February 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Berhow, p. 8 Jump up ^ Civil War and 1870s defenses at the Coast Defense Study Group website Archived February 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Berhow, pp. 201 -- 226 Jump up ^ List of all US coastal forts and batteries at the Coast Defense Study Group website Jump up ^ William Crowninshield Endicott, from Bell, William Gardner ( 1992 ), Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army, Center of Military History, US Army Jump up ^ Bauer and Roberts, p. 141 Jump up ^ Bauer and Roberts, p. 102 Jump up ^ Bauer and Roberts, pp. 101, 133, 141 -- 147 ^ Jump up to : Welch, 65 -- 66 Jump up ^ Booker, Christopher Brian ( 2014 ). `` '' No Force bill ! No Negro Domination in the South ! `` : President Grover Cleveland and the Return to Power of the Democratic Party ''. African - Americans & the Presidency. Jump up ^ Welch, 72 ^ Jump up to : Welch, 73 ^ Jump up to : Welch, 70 ; Nevins, 358 -- 359 Jump up ^ Graff, 206 -- 207 ^ Jump up to : Brodsky, 141 -- 142 ; Nevins, 228 -- 229 Jump up ^ Brodsky, 158 ; Jeffers, 149 ^ Jump up to : Graff, 78 Jump up ^ Graff, 79 Jump up ^ John Tyler, who married his second wife Julia Gardiner in 1844, was the first Jump up ^ Jeffers, 170 -- 176 ; Graff, 78 -- 81 ; Nevins, 302 -- 308 ; Welch, 51 Jump up ^ Graff, 80 -- 81 Jump up ^ William Grimes, `` Philippa Foot, Renowned Philosopher, Dies at 90 '' NY Times October 9, 2010 Jump up ^ Daniel J. Meador, `` Lamar to the Court : Last Step to National Reunion '' Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986 : 27 -- 47. ISSN 0362 - 5249 Jump up ^ Willard L. King, Melville Weston Fuller -- Chief Justice of the United States 1888 -- 1910 ( 1950 ) Jump up ^ Nevins, 445 -- 450 ^ Jump up to : Graff, 90 -- 91 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 166 Jump up ^ Nevins, 418 -- 420 Jump up ^ Nevins, 423 -- 427 Jump up ^ Leip, David. `` 1888 Presidential Election Results ''. Dave Leip 's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 18, 2008., `` Electoral College Box Scores 1789 -- 1996 ''. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved February 18, 2008. Jump up ^ Nevins, 435 -- 439 ; Jeffers, 220 -- 222 Jump up ^ Nevins, 443 -- 449 Jump up ^ Nevins, 448 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 175 Jump up ^ Nevins, 450 ; Graff, 99 -- 100 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 168 Jump up ^ Graff, 102 -- 105 ; Nevins, 465 -- 467 Jump up ^ Graff, 104 -- 105 ; Nevins, 467 -- 468 Jump up ^ Nevins, 470 -- 471 Jump up ^ Nevins, 468 -- 469 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 470 -- 473 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 182 Jump up ^ Graff, 105 ; Nevins, 492 -- 493 Jump up ^ William DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Gramercy 1997 Jump up ^ `` U.S. Senate : Art & History Home > Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd Vice President ( 1893 -- 1897 ) ''. Senate.gov. Retrieved May 30, 2011. Jump up ^ Nevins, 498 Jump up ^ Calhoun, 149 Jump up ^ Nevins, 499 Jump up ^ Graff, 106 -- 107 ; Nevins, 505 -- 506 Jump up ^ Graff, 108 Jump up ^ Tugwell, 184 -- 185 Jump up ^ Leip, David. `` 1892 Presidential Election Results ''. Dave Leip 's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 22, 2008., `` Electoral College Box Scores 1789 -- 1996 ''. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved February 22, 2008. Jump up ^ Graff, 114 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 526 -- 528 Jump up ^ Nevins, 524 -- 528, 537 -- 540. The vote was 239 to 108. Jump up ^ Tugwell, 192 -- 195 Jump up ^ Welch, 126 -- 127 Jump up ^ Timberlake, Richard H. ( 1993 ). Monetary Policy in the United States : An Intellectual and Institutional History. University of Chicago Press. p. 179. ISBN 0 - 226 - 80384 - 8. Jump up ^ Festus P. Summers, William L. Wilson and Tariff Reform : A Biography ( 1974 ) Jump up ^ Nevins, 567 ; the vote was 204 to 140 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 564 -- 566 ; Jeffers, 285 -- 287 Jump up ^ Lambert, 213 -- 15 Jump up ^ The income tax component of the Wilson - Gorman Act was partially ruled unconstitutional in 1895. See Pollock v. Farmers ' Loan & Trust Co. Jump up ^ Nevins, 577 -- 578 Jump up ^ Nevins, 585 -- 587 ; Jeffers, 288 -- 289 Jump up ^ Nevins, 564 -- 588 ; Jeffers, 285 -- 289 Jump up ^ James B. Hedges ( 1940 ), `` North America '', in William L. Langer, ed., An Encyclopedia of World History, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, Part V, Section G, Subsection 1c, p. 794. Jump up ^ Congressional Research Service ( 2004 ), The Constitution of the United States : Analysis and Interpretation -- Analysis of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 28, 2002, Washington : Government Printing Office, `` Fifteenth Amendment '', `` Congressional Enforcement '', `` Federal Remedial Legislation '', p. 2058. Jump up ^ Nevins, 568 ^ Jump up to : Graff, 117 -- 118 ; Nevins, 603 -- 605 Jump up ^ Graff, 118 ; Jeffers, 280 -- 281 Jump up ^ Nevins, 611 -- 613 Jump up ^ Nevins, 614 Jump up ^ Nevins, 614 -- 618 ; Graff, 118 -- 119 ; Jeffers, 296 -- 297 Jump up ^ Nevins, 619 -- 623 ; Jeffers, 298 -- 302. See also In re Debs. Jump up ^ Nevins, 628 Jump up ^ Nevins, 624 -- 628 ; Jeffers, 304 -- 305 ; Graff, 120 Jump up ^ Francis Lynde Stetson to Cleveland, October 7, 1894 in Allan Nevins, ed. Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850 -- 1908 ( 1933 ) p. 369 Jump up ^ Richard J. Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest : Social and Political Conflict, 1888 -- 96 ( 1971 ) pp 229 -- 230 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 560 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 549 -- 552 ; Graff 121 -- 122 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 552 -- 554 ; Graff, 122 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 558 -- 559 Jump up ^ Welch, 174 Jump up ^ McWilliams, 25 -- 36 Jump up ^ Zakaria, 145 -- 146 Jump up ^ Graff, 123 -- 125 ; Nevins, 633 -- 642 Jump up ^ Paul Gibb, `` Unmasterly Inactivity ? Sir Julian Pauncefote, Lord Salisbury, and the Venezuela Boundary Dispute '', Diplomacy & Statecraft, Mar 2005, Vol. 16 Issue 1, pp. 23 -- 55 Jump up ^ Nelson M. Blake, `` Background of Cleveland 's Venezuelan Policy '', American Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 2 ( Jan. 1942 ), pp. 259 -- 277 in JSTOR Jump up ^ Graff, 123 -- 125 Jump up ^ Nevins, 550, 633 -- 648 Jump up ^ Bruce N. Canfield `` The Foreign Rifle : U.S. Krag -- Jørgensen '' American Rifleman October 2010 pp. 86 -- 89, 126, 129 Jump up ^ Hanevik, Karl Egil ( 1998 ). Norske Militærgeværer etter 1867 Jump up ^ Friedman, pp. 35 -- 38 Jump up ^ Bauer and Roberts, pp. 162 -- 165 Jump up ^ Bauer and Roberts, pp. 102 -- 104, 162 -- 165 ^ Jump up to : A Renehan ; JC Lowry ( July 1995 ). `` The oral tumours of two American presidents : what if they were alive today ? ''. JR Soc Med. 88 ( 7 ) : 377 -- 383. PMC 1295266. PMID 7562805. Jump up ^ Nevins, 528 -- 529 ; Graff, 115 -- 116 Jump up ^ Nevins, 531 -- 533 Jump up ^ Nevins, 529 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 530 -- 531 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 532 -- 533 Jump up ^ Nevins, 533 ; Graff, 116 ^ Jump up to : Keen, William W. ( 1917 ). The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893. G.W. Jacobs & Co. The lump was preserved and is on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia Jump up ^ Hardig WG. ( 1974 ). `` Oral surgery and the presidents -- a century of contrast ''. J Oral Surg. 32 ( 7 ) : 490 -- 493. PMID 4601118. Jump up ^ Miller JM. ( 1961 ). `` Stephen Grover Cleveland ''. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 113 : 524. Jump up ^ Brooks JJ ; Enterline HT ; Aponte GE. ( 1908 ). `` The final diagnosis of President Cleveland 's lesion ''. Trans Stud Coll Physic Philadelphia. 2 ( 1 ). ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 569 -- 570 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 570 -- 571 ^ Jump up to : Nevins, 572 Jump up ^ `` Today in History : November 11 ''. loc.gov. Library of Congress. Jump up ^ `` Today in History : November 2 ''. loc.gov. Library of Congress. Jump up ^ Timberlake, Richard H. ( 1993 ). Monetary Policy in the United States : An Intellectual and Institutional History. University of Chicago Press. p. 77. ISBN 0 - 226 - 80384 - 8. Jump up ^ Thatcher, Linda Thatcher ( 2016 ). `` Struggle For Statehood Chronology ''. historytogo.utah.gov. State of Utah. Jump up ^ Nevins, 684 -- 693 Jump up ^ R. Hal Williams, Years of Decision : American Politics in the 1890s ( 1993 ) Jump up ^ Graff, 128 -- 129 Jump up ^ Leip, David. `` 1896 Presidential Election Results ''. Dave Leip 's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 23, 2008. Jump up ^ Nevins, 754 -- 758 Jump up ^ Graff, 131 -- 133 ; Nevins, 730 -- 735 Jump up ^ Graff, p. 131 ; Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, Princeton Univ Press, 1978, `` Grover Cleveland '' Jump up ^ Nevins, 748 -- 751 Jump up ^ Ladies Home Journal 22, ( October 1905 ), 7 -- 8 Jump up ^ `` Dryden Forces Gather to Make Their Fight ''. New York Times. November 11, 1906. Retrieved March 4, 2015. ^ Jump up to : Graff, 135 -- 136 ; Nevins, 762 -- 764 Jump up ^ Jeffers, 340 ; Graff, 135. Nevins makes no mention of these last words. Jump up ^ Roberts, Russell ( 1995 ). Discover the Hidden New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8135 - 2252 - 4. Retrieved August 22, 2012. Jump up ^ Kimberly Prothro Williams, Cleveland Park Historic District brochure, D.C. Preservation League, 2001. Jump up ^ See, e.g. `` A Brief History of Cleveland Park ''. Cleveland Park Historical Society. Archived from the original on November 26, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Buffalo State College Cleveland Hall ''. Retrieved November 11, 2009. Jump up ^ James D. Myers ( 1994 ). `` The geology, Geochemistry, and Petrology of the recent Magmatic Phase of the Central and Western Aleutian Arc '' ( Unpublished manuscript ). University of Wyoming. p. 41. Retrieved September 9, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Grover Cleveland 24th President ''. Presidentsgraves.com. June 24, 1908. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012. Further reading Scholarly studies Bauer, K. Jack ; Roberts, Stephen S. ( 1991 ). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775 -- 1990 : Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press. ISBN 0 - 313 - 26202 - 0. Bard, Mitchell. `` Ideology and Depression Politics I : Grover Cleveland ( 1893 -- 1897 ) '' Presidential Studies Quarterly 1985 15 ( 1 ) : 77 -- 88. ISSN 0360 - 4918 Beito, David T. and Beito, Linda Royster, `` Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896 -- 1900, '' Independent Review 4 ( Spring 2000 ), 555 -- 575. Berhow, Mark A., Ed. ( 2015 ). American Seacoast Defenses, A Reference Guide, Third Edition. McLean, Virginia : CDSG Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 9748167 - 3 - 9. Blake, Nelson M. `` Background of Cleveland 's Venezuelan Policy. '' American Historical Review 1942 47 ( 2 ) : 259 -- 277. in Jstor Blodgett, Geoffrey. `` Ethno - cultural Realities in Presidential Patronage : Grover Cleveland 's Choices '' New York History 2000 81 ( 2 ) : 189 -- 210. ISSN 0146 - 437X when a German American leader called for fewer appointments of Irish Americans, Cleveland instead appointed more Germans Blodgett, Geoffrey. `` The Emergence of Grover Cleveland : a Fresh Appraisal '' New York History 1992 73 ( 2 ) : 132 -- 168. ISSN 0146 - 437X covers Cleveland to 1884 Blum, John. The National Experience ( 1993 ) ISBN 0 - 15 - 500366 - 6 Brodsky, Alan. Grover Cleveland : A Study in Character, ( 2000 ). ISBN 0 - 312 - 26883 - 1 Calhoun, Charles William ( 2005 ). Benjamin Harrison. Macmillan. ISBN 0 - 8050 - 6952 - 6. Cleaver, Nick. Grover Cleveland 's New Foreign Policy : Arbitration, Neutrality, and the Dawn of American Empire ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 ). DeSantis, Vincent P. `` Grover Cleveland : Another Look. '' Hayes Historical Journal 1980 3 ( 1 -- 2 ) : 41 -- 50. ISSN 0364 - 5924, argues his energy, honesty, and devotion to duty -- much more than his actual accomplishments established his claim to greatness. Dewey, Davis R. National Problems : 1880 -- 1897 ( 1907 ), online edition Doenecke, Justus. `` Grover Cleveland and the Enforcement of the Civil Service Act '' Hayes Historical Journal 1984 4 ( 3 ) : 44 -- 58. ISSN 0364 - 5924 Faulkner, Harold U. Politics, Reform, and Expansion, 1890 -- 1900 ( 1959 ), online edition Ford, Henry Jones. The Cleveland Era : A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics ( 1921 ), short overview online Gould, Lewis. America in the Progressive Era, 1890 -- 1914 ( 2001 ) ISBN 0 - 582 - 35671 - 7 Graff, Henry F. Grover Cleveland ( 2002 ). ISBN 0 - 8050 - 6923 - 2, short biography by scholar Grossman, Mark, Political Corruption in America : An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power, and Greed ( 2003 ) ISBN 1 - 57607 - 060 - 3. Hoffman, Karen S. `` ' Going Public ' in the Nineteenth Century : Grover Cleveland 's Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act '' Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2002 5 ( 1 ) : 57 -- 77. ISSN 1094 - 8392 Hirsch, Mark D. William C. Whitney, Modern Warwick ( 1948 ), biography of key political associate Hoffman, Karen S. `` ' Going Public ' in the Nineteenth Century : Grover Cleveland 's Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act '' Rhetoric and Public Affairs 2002 5 ( 1 ) : 57 -- 77. in Project MUSE Hoffmann, Charles. `` The depression of the nineties. '' Journal of Economic History 16 # 2 ( 1956 ) : 137 -- 164. in JSTOR Hoffmann, Charles. Depression of the nineties ; an economic history ( 1970_ Jeffers, H. Paul, An Honest President : The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland ( 2000 ), ISBN 0 - 380 - 97746 - X. Kelley, Robert, `` Presbyterianism, Jacksonianism and Grover Cleveland '', `` American Quarterly '' 1966 18 ( 4 ) : 615 -- 636. in JSTOR Klinghard, Daniel P. `` Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and the emergence of the president as party leader. '' Presidential Studies Quarterly 35.4 ( 2005 ) : 736 - 760. Lambert, John R. Arthur Pue Gorman ( 1953 ) Lynch, G. Patrick `` U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century : Why Culture and the Economy Both Mattered. '' Polity 35 # 1 ( 2002 ) pp. 29 -- 50. in JSTOR, focus on election of 1884 McElroy, Robert. Grover Cleveland, the Man and the Statesman : An Authorized Biography ( 1923 ) Vol. I, Vol. II, old fashioned narrative McFarland, Gerald W. Mugwumps, morals, & politics, 1884 -- 1920 ( 1975 ) ISBN 0 - 87023 - 175 - 8 McWilliams, Tennant S., `` James H. Blount, the South, and Hawaiian Annexation. '' Pacific Historical Review 1988 57 ( 1 ) : 25 -- 46. in JSTOR. Merrill, Horace Samuel. Bourbon Leader : Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party ( 1957 ) 228 pp Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley : National Party Politics, 1877 -- 1896 ( 1969 ). Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland : A Study in Courage ( 1932 ) Pulitzer Prize - winning biography, the major resource on Cleveland. Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888 -- 1901 ( Macmillan, 1937 ). 791 pp ; comprehensive old - fashioned political history Reitano, Joanne R. The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age : The Great Debate of 1888 ( 1994 ). ISBN 0 - 271 - 01035 - 5. Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 : 1877 -- 1896 ( 1919 ) online complete ; old, factual and heavily political, by winner of Pulitzer Prize Sturgis, Amy H. ed. Presidents from Hayes Through McKinley : Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents ( Greenwood, 2003 ). Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Rum, Romanism & Rebellion : The Making of a President, 1884 ( 2000 ). ISBN 0 - 8078 - 4849 - 2. campaign techniques and issues online edition Tugwell, Rexford Guy, Grover Cleveland Simon & Schuster, Inc. ( 1968 ). Welch, Richard E. Jr. The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland ( 1988 ) ISBN 0 - 7006 - 0355 - 7, scholarly study of the presidential years Wilson, Woodrow, Mr. Cleveland as President Atlantic Monthly ( March 1897 ) : pp. 289 -- 301 online ; Wilson later became president Zakaria, Fareed From Wealth to Power ( 1999 ) Princeton University Press. ISBN 0 - 691 - 01035 - 8. Primary sources Cleveland, Grover. The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland ( 1892 ) online edition Cleveland, Grover. Presidential Problems. ( 1904 ) online edition Nevins, Allan ed. Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850 -- 1908 ( 1933 ) National Democratic Committee ( 1896 ). Campaign Text - book of the National Democratic Party., handbook of the Gold Democrats, who admired Cleveland Sturgis, Amy H. ed. Presidents from Hayes through McKinley, 1877 -- 1901 : Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents ( 2003 ) online edition Wilson, William L. The Cabinet Diary of William L. Wilson, 1896 -- 1897 ( 1957 ) online edition External links Find more aboutGrover Clevelandat Wikipedia 's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource Official White House biography Letters and Speeches Text of a number of Cleveland 's speeches at the Miller Center of Public Affairs Finding Aid to the Grover Cleveland Manuscripts, 1867 - 1908 at the New York State Library, accessed May 11, 2016 10 letters written by Grover Cleveland in 1884 - 86 Grover Cleveland Personal Manuscripts Media coverage `` Grover Cleveland collected news and commentary ''. The New York Times. Other Grover Cleveland : A Resource Guide, Library of Congress Grover Cleveland : A bibliography by The Buffalo History Museum Grover Cleveland Sites in Buffalo, NY : A Google Map developed by The Buffalo History Museum Index to the Grover Cleveland Papers at the Library of Congress Essay on Cleveland and each member of his cabinet and First Lady, Miller Center of Public Affairs `` Life Portrait of Grover Cleveland '', from C - SPAN 's American Presidents : Life Portraits, August 13, 1999 Interview with H. Paul Jeffers on An Honest President : The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland, Booknotes ( 2000 ) Works by Grover Cleveland at Project Gutenberg Works by Grover Cleveland at LibriVox ( public domain audiobooks ) Works by or about Grover Cleveland at Internet Archive Grover Cleveland on IMDb Offices and distinctions Political offices Preceded by Alexander Brush Mayor of Buffalo 1882 Succeeded by Marcus M. Drake Preceded by Alonzo B. Cornell Governor of New York 1883 -- 1885 Succeeded by David B. Hill Preceded by Chester A. Arthur President of the United States 1885 -- 1889 Succeeded by Benjamin Harrison Preceded by Benjamin Harrison President of the United States 1893 -- 1897 Succeeded by William McKinley Party political offices Preceded by Lucius Robinson Democratic nominee for Governor of New York 1882 Succeeded by David B. Hill Preceded by Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic nominee for President of the United States 1884, 1888, 1892 Succeeded by William Jennings Bryan Honorary titles Preceded by Benjamin Harrison Oldest living President of the United States 1901 -- 1908 Succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt Articles related to Grover Cleveland Presidents of the United States ( list ) George Washington ( 1789 -- 1797 ) John Adams ( 1797 -- 1801 ) Thomas Jefferson ( 1801 -- 1809 ) James Madison ( 1809 -- 1817 ) James Monroe ( 1817 -- 1825 ) John Quincy Adams ( 1825 -- 1829 ) Andrew Jackson ( 1829 -- 1837 ) Martin Van Buren ( 1837 -- 1841 ) William Henry Harrison ( 1841 ) John Tyler ( 1841 -- 1845 ) James K. Polk ( 1845 -- 1849 ) Zachary Taylor ( 1849 -- 1850 ) Millard Fillmore ( 1850 -- 1853 ) Franklin Pierce ( 1853 -- 1857 ) James Buchanan ( 1857 -- 1861 ) Abraham Lincoln ( 1861 -- 1865 ) Andrew Johnson ( 1865 -- 1869 ) Ulysses S. Grant ( 1869 -- 1877 ) Rutherford B. Hayes ( 1877 -- 1881 ) James A. Garfield ( 1881 ) Chester A. Arthur ( 1881 -- 1885 ) Grover Cleveland ( 1885 -- 1889 ) Benjamin Harrison ( 1889 -- 1893 ) Grover Cleveland ( 1893 -- 1897 ) William McKinley ( 1897 -- 1901 ) Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901 -- 1909 ) William H. Taft ( 1909 -- 1913 ) Woodrow Wilson ( 1913 -- 1921 ) Warren G. Harding ( 1921 -- 1923 ) Calvin Coolidge ( 1923 -- 1929 ) Herbert Hoover ( 1929 -- 1933 ) Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1933 -- 1945 ) Harry S. Truman ( 1945 -- 1953 ) Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1953 -- 1961 ) John F. Kennedy ( 1961 -- 1963 ) Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1963 -- 1969 ) Richard Nixon ( 1969 -- 1974 ) Gerald Ford ( 1974 -- 1977 ) Jimmy Carter ( 1977 -- 1981 ) Ronald Reagan ( 1981 -- 1989 ) George H.W. Bush ( 1989 -- 1993 ) Bill Clinton ( 1993 -- 2001 ) George W. Bush ( 2001 -- 2009 ) Barack Obama ( 2009 -- 2017 ) Donald Trump ( 2017 -- present ) Presidency timelines Wilson Harding Coolidge Hoover F.D. Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Kennedy L.B. Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan G.H.W. Bush Clinton G.W. Bush Obama Trump Book United States Democratic Party Chairpersons of the DNC Hallett McLane Smalley Belmont Schell Hewitt Barnum Brice Harrity Jones Taggart Mack McCombs McCormick Cummings White Hull Shaver Raskob Farley Flynn Walker Hannegan McGrath Boyle McKinney Mitchell Butler Jackson Bailey O'Brien Harris O'Brien Westwood Strauss Curtis White Manatt Kirk Brown Wilhelm DeLee Dodd / Fowler Romer / Grossman Rendell / Andrew McAuliffe Dean Kaine Wasserman Schultz Perez Presidential tickets Jackson / Calhoun Jackson / Van Buren Van Buren / R. Johnson Van Buren / None Polk / Dallas Cass / Butler Pierce / King Buchanan / Breckinridge Douglas / H. Johnson ( Breckinridge / Lane, SD ) McClellan / Pendleton Seymour / Blair Greeley / Brown Tilden / Hendricks Hancock / English Cleveland / Hendricks Cleveland / Thurman Cleveland / Stevenson I W. Bryan / Sewall W. Bryan / Stevenson I Parker / H. Davis W. Bryan / Kern Wilson / Marshall ( twice ) Cox / Roosevelt J. Davis / C. Bryan Smith / Robinson Roosevelt / Garner ( twice ) Roosevelt / Wallace Roosevelt / Truman Truman / Barkley Stevenson II / Sparkman Stevenson II / Kefauver Kennedy / L. Johnson L. Johnson / Humphrey Humphrey / Muskie McGovern / ( Eagleton, Shriver ) Carter / Mondale ( twice ) Mondale / Ferraro Dukakis / Bentsen B. Clinton / Gore ( twice ) Gore / Lieberman Kerry / Edwards Obama / Biden ( twice ) H. Clinton / Kaine State and Territorial Parties Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming District of Columbia Guam Puerto Rico Conventions ( List ) 1832 ( Baltimore ) 1835 ( Baltimore ) 1840 ( Baltimore ) 1844 ( Baltimore ) 1848 ( Baltimore ) 1852 ( Baltimore ) 1856 ( Cincinnati ) 1860 ( Baltimore ) 1864 ( Chicago ) 1868 ( New York ) 1872 ( Baltimore ) 1876 ( Saint Louis ) 1880 ( Cincinnati ) 1884 ( Chicago ) 1888 ( Saint Louis ) 1892 ( Chicago ) 1896 ( Chicago ) 1900 ( Kansas City ) 1904 ( Saint Louis ) 1908 ( Denver ) 1912 ( Baltimore ) 1916 ( Saint Louis ) 1920 ( San Francisco ) 1924 ( New York ) 1928 ( Houston ) 1932 ( Chicago ) 1936 ( Philadelphia ) 1940 ( Chicago ) 1944 ( Chicago ) 1948 ( Philadelphia ) 1952 ( Chicago ) 1956 ( Chicago ) 1960 ( Los Angeles ) 1964 ( Atlantic City ) 1968 ( Chicago ) 1972 ( Miami Beach ) 1976 ( New York ) 1980 ( New York ) 1984 ( San Francisco ) 1988 ( Atlanta ) 1992 ( New York ) 1996 ( Chicago ) 2000 ( Los Angeles ) 2004 ( Boston ) 2008 ( Denver ) 2012 ( Charlotte ) 2016 ( Philadelphia ) Affiliated groups Fundraising Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Democratic Governors Association Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee National Conference of Democratic Mayors Sectional College Democrats of America Democrats Abroad National Federation of Democratic Women Stonewall Democrats Stonewall Young Democrats Young Democrats of America High School Democrats of America Related articles History Primaries Debates Party factions Superdelegate 2005 chairmanship election 2017 chairmanship election Liberalism portal Governors and Lieutenant Governors of New York Governors G. Clinton Jay G. Clinton Lewis Tompkins Tayler D. Clinton Yates D. Clinton Pitcher Van Buren Throop Marcy Seward Bouck Wright Young Fish Hunt Seymour Clark King Morgan Seymour Fenton Hoffman J. Adams Dix Tilden Robinson Cornell Cleveland Hill Flower Morton Black T. Roosevelt Odell Higgins Hughes White J. Alden Dix Sulzer Glynn Whitman Smith Miller Smith F. Roosevelt Lehman Poletti Dewey Harriman Rockefeller Wilson Carey M. Cuomo Pataki Spitzer Paterson A. Cuomo Lieutenant Governors Van Cortlandt S. Van Rensselaer J. Van Rensselaer Broome Tayler Clinton Tayler Swift Tayler Root Tallmadge Pitcher P. Livingston Dayan Throop Stebbins Oliver E. Livingston Tracy Bradish Dickinson Gardiner Lester Fish Patterson Church Raymond Selden Campbell Floyd - Jones Alvord Woodford Beach Robinson Dorsheimer Hoskins Hill McCarthy Jones Sheehan Saxton Woodruff Higgins Bruce Raines Chanler White Cobb Conway Glynn Wagner Schoeneck Walker Wood Lusk Lunn Lowman Corning Lehman Bray Poletti Hanley Wallace Hanley Moore Wicks Mahoney DeLuca Wilson Anderson Krupsak Cuomo DelBello Anderson Lundine McCaughey Donohue Paterson Bruno Skelos Smith Espada Ravitch Duffy Hochul Italics indicate acting officeholders Mayors of Buffalo, New York Johnson Andrews Johnson Pratt Wilkeson Trowbridge Barker Walden Pratt Thompson Harrington Clinton Masten Ketchum Masten Haven Spaulding Allen Barton Smith Wadsworth Barton Cook Stevens Lockwood Alberger Fargo Wells Rogers Brush Dayton Becker Scheu Brush Cleveland Drake Cutting Manning Scoville Becker Bishop Jewett Diehl Knight Adam Fuhrmann Buck Schwab Roesch Zimmerman Holling Kelly Dowd Mruk Pankow Sedita Kowal Sedita Makowski Griffin Masiello Brown Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland ( 1885 -- 89 ) Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard ( 1885 -- 89 ) Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Manning ( 1885 -- 87 ) Charles S. Fairchild ( 1887 -- 89 ) Secretary of War William C. Endicott ( 1885 -- 89 ) Attorney General Augustus H. Garland ( 1885 -- 89 ) Postmaster General William F. Vilas ( 1885 -- 88 ) Donald M. Dickinson ( 1888 -- 89 ) Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney ( 1885 -- 89 ) Secretary of the Interior Lucius Q.C. Lamar, II ( 1885 -- 88 ) William F. Vilas ( 1888 -- 89 ) Secretary of Agriculture Norman J. Coleman ( 1889 ) Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland ( 1893 -- 97 ) Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham ( 1893 -- 95 ) Richard Olney ( 1895 -- 97 ) Secretary of the Treasury John Griffin Carlisle ( 1893 -- 97 ) Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont ( 1893 -- 97 ) Attorney General Richard Olney ( 1893 -- 95 ) Judson Harmon ( 1895 -- 97 ) Postmaster General Wilson S. Bissell ( 1893 -- 95 ) William Lyne Wilson ( 1895 -- 97 ) Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert ( 1893 -- 97 ) Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith ( 1893 -- 96 ) David R. Francis ( 1896 -- 97 ) Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton ( 1893 -- 97 ) ( 1880 ← ) United States presidential election, 1884 ( 1888 → ) Republican Party Convention Nominee James G. Blaine VP nominee John A. Logan Candidates Chester A. Arthur George F. Edmunds John A. Logan John Sherman Joseph R. Hawley William T. Sherman Philip Sheridan Robert T. Lincoln Democratic Party Convention Nominee Grover Cleveland VP nominee Thomas A. Hendricks Candidates Thomas F. Bayard Thomas A. Hendricks Allen G. Thurman Samuel J. Randall Joseph E. McDonald Third party and independent candidates Greenback / Anti-Monopoly Nominee Benjamin Butler VP nominee Absolom M. West Candidates Allen G. Thurman James B. Weaver Jesse Harper Prohibition Party Nominee John St. John VP nominee William Daniel National Equal Rights Party Nominee Belva Ann Lockwood VP nominee Marietta Stow Other 1884 elections : House Senate ( 1884 ← ) United States presidential election, 1888 ( 1892 → ) Democratic Party Convention Nominee Grover Cleveland VP nominee Allen G. Thurman Republican Party Convention Nominee Benjamin Harrison VP nominee Levi P. Morton Candidates John Sherman Russell A. Alger William B. Allison Chauncey Depew John J. Ingalls Jeremiah M. Rusk William W. Phelps Edwin H. Fitler James G. Blaine Third party and independent candidates Prohibition Party Nominee Clinton B. Fisk VP nominee John A. Brooks Union Labor Party Nominee Alson Streeter VP nominee Charles E. Cunningham United Labor Party Nominee Robert H. Cowdrey VP nominee William H.T. Wakefield American Party Nominee James L. Curtis VP nominee Peter D. Wigginton National Equal Rights Party Nominee Belva Ann Lockwood VP nominee Alfred H. Love Other 1888 elections : House Senate ( 1888 ← ) United States presidential election, 1892 ( 1896 → ) Republican Party Convention Nominee Benjamin Harrison VP nominee Whitelaw Reid Candidates James G. Blaine William McKinley John Sherman Democratic Party Convention Nominee Grover Cleveland VP nominee Adlai Stevenson I Candidates David B. Hill Horace Boies Third party and independent candidates Populist Party Nominee James B. Weaver VP nominee James G. Field Candidates James H. Kyle Leonidas L. Polk Walter Q. Gresham Prohibition Party Nominee John Bidwell VP nominee James Cranfill Candidates Gideon T. Stewart William Jennings Demorest Socialist Labor Party Nominee Simon Wing VP nominee Charles H. Matchett Other 1892 elections : House Senate Hall of Fame for Great Americans John Adams John Quincy Adams Jane Addams Louis Agassiz Susan B. Anthony John James Audubon George Bancroft Clara Barton Henry Ward Beecher Alexander Graham Bell Daniel Boone Edwin Booth Louis Brandeis Phillips Brooks William Cullen Bryant Luther Burbank Andrew Carnegie George Washington Carver William Ellery Channing Rufus Choate Henry Clay Grover Cleveland James Fenimore Cooper Peter Cooper Charlotte Cushman James Buchanan Eads Thomas Alva Edison Jonathan Edwards Ralph Waldo Emerson David Farragut Stephen Foster Benjamin Franklin Robert Fulton Josiah W. Gibbs William C. Gorgas Ulysses S. Grant Asa Gray Alexander Hamilton Nathaniel Hawthorne Joseph Henry Patrick Henry Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Mark Hopkins Elias Howe Washington Irving Andrew Jackson Thomas J. Jackson Thomas Jefferson John Paul Jones James Kent Sidney Lanier Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell Mary Lyon Edward MacDowell James Madison Horace Mann John Marshall Matthew Fontaine Maury Albert A. Michelson Maria Mitchell James Monroe Samuel F.B. Morse William T.G. Morton John Lothrop Motley Simon Newcomb Thomas Paine Alice Freeman Palmer Francis Parkman George Peabody William Penn Edgar Allan Poe Walter Reed Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Saint - Gaudens William Tecumseh Sherman John Philip Sousa Joseph Story Harriet Beecher Stowe Gilbert Stuart Sylvanus Thayer Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Lillian Wald Booker T. Washington George Washington Daniel Webster George Westinghouse James McNeill Whistler Walt Whitman Eli Whitney John Greenleaf Whittier Emma Willard Frances E. Willard Roger Williams Woodrow Wilson Orville Wright Wilbur Wright BNF : cb121085227 ( data ) GND : 118669540 ISNI : 0000 0000 8214 3494 LCCN : n50029194 NARA : 10582216 NKC : xx0105920 NLA : 35251873 SNAC : w6rg6j0c SUDOC : 029463092 VIAF : 30330745 Biography portal Conservatism portal Government of the United States portal New Jersey portal New York portal Politics portal Law portal United States portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grover_Cleveland&oldid=853972755 '' Categories : 1837 births 1908 deaths 19th - century American politicians American executioners American people of English descent American people of German descent American people of Guernsey descent American people of Scotch - Irish descent Burials at Princeton Cemetery Conservatism in the United States Democratic Party Presidents of the United States Democratic Party state governors of the United States Democratic Party ( United States ) presidential nominees Governors of New York ( state ) Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland family Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees History of the United States ( 1865 -- 1918 ) Mayors of Buffalo, New York New York ( state ) Democrats New York ( state ) lawyers Non-interventionism American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law Lawyers from Buffalo, New York People from Caldwell, New Jersey People from Clinton, Oneida County, New York People from Fayetteville, New York Presidents of the United States Sheriffs of Erie County, New York United States presidential candidates, 1884 United States presidential candidates, 1888 United States presidential candidates, 1892 Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links CS1 : Julian -- Gregorian uncertainty Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages Wikipedia indefinitely move - protected pages Use mdy dates from June 2018 Articles with short description Articles with Project Gutenberg links Articles with LibriVox links Articles with Internet Archive links Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NARA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Featured articles Talk View source Contents About Wikipedia Wikiquote Wikisource Afrikaans አማርኛ Ænglisc Aragonés Asturianu Azərbaycanca تۆرکجه বাংলা Bân - lâm - gú Беларуская Беларуская ( тарашкевіца ) ‎ Bikol Central Bislama Български Boarisch Bosanski Català Чӑвашла Cebuano Čeština Corsu Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch ދިވެހިބަސް Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Frysk Gaeilge Gaelg Gàidhlig Galego 客家 語 / Hak - kâ - ngî 한국어 Հայերեն हिन्दी Hrvatski Ido Ilokano Bahasa Indonesia Interlingua Íslenska Italiano עברית Basa Jawa Kapampangan ქართული Қазақша Kernowek Kinyarwanda Kiswahili Kurdî Latina Latviešu Lietuvių Lumbaart Magyar Malagasy മലയാളം मराठी მარგალური مصرى مازِرونی Bahasa Melayu Mìng - dĕ̤ng - ngṳ̄ မြန်မာဘာသာ Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk Occitan ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی Piemontèis Plattdüütsch Polski Português Română Rumantsch Русский Scots Shqip Sicilianu Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Tagalog தமிழ் ไทย Türkçe Українська اردو Tiếng Việt Winaray ייִדיש Yorùbá 粵語 Žemaitėška 中文 Lingua Franca Nova 101 more Edit links This page was last edited on 8 August 2018, at 03 : 24 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who was the only us president to be married in the white house
Answer: Cleveland