Grover+Cleveland2

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=Grover Cleveland 2 =__ Biographical Information:__=

Buried: Princeton, New Jersey
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=Grover Cleveland was the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president. He was born in New Jersey in 1837 and died in 1908. He was raised in upstate New York. At age 44, he joined a political prominence that carried him to the white house. In three years he ran as a public Reformer and was elected as mayor of Buffalo in 1881 and later governor of New York. Cleveland was the first elected Democrat after the civil war. He was the only president to leave the white house and returned for a second term four years later. He was a bachelor when he was elected. He married during his term becoming the only president married in the white house. Cleveland was also the first president to be photographed by a motion picture camera and to have the first child born in the white house. He was a lawyer in Buffalo and became known for this single minded concentrated upon whatever problem faced him. Cleveland won the presidency with the both democrat and reform republicans. James G. Blaine of Maine’s record was disliked by the “mugwumps”. =

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__**Interesting Facts**__ =*Had several pets: poodle, canaries, mocking birds *Had No formal education *Political Party Democrat *occupation was a lawyer *only president elected to two nonconsecutive terms *only president to be married in the white house *used his veto power a record 584 times *"Death" and "Destruction" was the name he gave to his favorite hunting rifle *according to the Curtiss Candy Company (and now Nestle ), the Baby Ruth candy bar was named after his baby daughter, Ruth *the only president's child born in the White House was Cleveland's daughter Esther. *Cleveland would answer the White House phone personally *He was born Stephen Grover Cleveland= = = =__Presidential Timeline__= =__Links__=
 * **1866**- British Parliment repealed the stamp act leading up to the American Revolution
 * **1884**- Cleveland was nominated to run for president.
 * **1887**- Interstate commerse act passed creating the interstate Commerse commision.
 * **1893**- An economic depression happened and thousands of businesses went under and riots broke out.
 * **1897**- Cleveland retired from active political life and moved to Princeton, New Jersey
 * 1) www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gc2224.html
 * 2) http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/clevevland
 * 3) http://grovercleveland.org/