Cleveland/Hendricks Campaign Button
name: label: associated person
content: Cleveland, Grover
notes: label: Description
content: Grover Cleveland ran for president three times, in 1884, 1888, and 1892. He won the popular vote in each election, but only won the electoral vote, and thus the presidency, in 1884 and 1892. In each of these races, the Democratic Cleveland selected a difference vice presidential candidate – Thomas Hendricks, Allen Thurman, and Adlai Stevenson I. This pin comes from 1884, when Cleveland – then governor of New York – ran alongside Thomas A. Hendricks, former governor of Indiana against James G Blaine. New York and Indiana were the most significant swing states in Gilded Age elections, and the combination proved successful – providing Cleveland’s biggest win out of his three campaigns.
topic: label: general subject association
content: Political Campaigns
label: used
content: Political Campaigns
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0200.020
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0200.020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm