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Grover Cleveland :: essays research papers

Gr over Cleveland     Grover Cleveland , the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of theUnited States, was born in Caldwell, New jersey on March 18, 1837. He was the prototypic Democratic President who served two terms that did not directly followeach other. He also was the first President who was elected after the Civil War.     Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name wasRichard Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughterof a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth child in a family of fourbrothers and five sisters.     Grover Clevelands family let a hard life, having little money andmoving around alot. After Grover Clevelands father died, he had to succorsupport the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 aweek He was unable to go to police school like he wanted to do, so he studied byhimself and became an attorney in l859. Grover Cleve land became interested inpolitics and held several venial offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor ofBuffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment.He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his spiritfor honesty.     Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was thefirst President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried into everydetail of Grover Clevelands life which he called "colossal encrustation".Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the firstand only child of a President to ever be born in the White House.     In 1884, Grover Clevelands supporters suggested that he examination forPresident of the United States. His motto was "a public office is a publictrust". He was elected as the twenty-second President from 1885 until 1889. Heserved for four years and then barely lost the next election to BenjaminH arrison, even though he had the majority of the popular vote. In 1892, he waspersuaded to seek office again and he returned to Washington as the twenty-fourth President in 1893 for four more years.     This President, called "Uncle Jumbo" by his relatives, was a hard- on the job(p) President. He liked to do much of the work himself instead of assigningtasks to other people. Mr. Cleveland often stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. goingover official business, and sometimes answered the White House Telephone himself.     Grover Cleveland worked hard at reducing taxes on products that cameinto the United States, he refused easy money to farmers so that they could shorten their debt, and he refused bigger pensions to Veterans.

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