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President Cleveland

                           Grover Cleveland

Stephan Grover Cleveland is the fifth of nine children born to Reverend Richard Falley Cleveland and Ann Neal Cleveland. He was born on March 18th of 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey, although he was raised in Fayetteville, New York. The actual house in which he was born still stands today on 207 Bloomfield Avenue. He was named in honor of Stephan Grover, a minister at a local Presbyterian Church who Reverend Cleveland had recently taken over for. Life as the
son of a minister was different than most boys.  The Cleveland’s spent every evening at
home in prayer.  Cleveland felt that this moral upbringing was his most valuable tool
in life.
     Grover Cleveland visited an uncle in Buffalo, New York, and obtained a job in a law
firm.  While working there, he studied law and by May of 1859, the New York Supreme
Court admitted him to the bar.  Democratic politics had interested Cleveland since
his arrival in Buffalo, so he became the county’s assistant district attorney.  In 1865,
Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses
S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The Confederacy had collapsed and the
United States was reunited and slavery was abolished.
       As the nation returned to peace, twenty-eight-year-old Cleveland won the demanding
position of sheriff.  When his term ended in 1873, he returned to his infamous law
practice. On January 1,1882, Grover Cleveland took an oath to honor the city of
Buffalo as their mayor.  Cleveland was tough and honest.  He was known as the
“Veto Mayor,” because he continuously vetoed bills presented by corrupt politicians.
     In November of 1882, by a landslide margin of nearly 200,000 votes, Grover
Cleveland became know as the “Veto Governor.” He understood the tremendous
challenge of being the Governor of the State of New York, but his principles and values
remained as strong as ever.  The door to his office was always open, and he kept no secrets.
          In two years’ time, Cleveland’s stubborn sense of fairness and honesty gave him
the nickname “His Obstinacy.”  He passed bills to enlarge the state’s water supply
and established a 1.5 million-acre park at Niagara Falls.  Due to his reputation, the
Democratic Party convinced him to run for president.  On the second ballot, Cleveland
won the Democratic nomination. The Democrats chose Thomas Hendricks of Indiana, as
his vice-president on the ballot. To oppose Cleveland for presidency, the Republicans
picked former Maine Congressman, James G. Blaine. Blaine was highly respected
as a brilliant politician and national leader. With both candidates the victims of scandals,
in 1884 the United States had never witnessed such a nasty campaign. In the end, Cleveland
won by a slim margin of less than 63,000 votes.  In just three years, Americans had
lifted Grover Cleveland from a city lawyer to the highest public office in our country.
     At the age of forty-seven, Grover Cleveland became the twenty-second President
of the United States, on March 4, 1885.  A bachelor, Cleveland was not familiar with
the comforts of the White House. During this first term, he ran into trouble. He filled
every federal office with Democra...

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