Grover+Cleveland1

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=Grover Cleveland 1=

=__Biographical Information:__=

Nickname(s):"Big Steve", "Uncle Jumbo"

 * Children: Ruth (1891-1904), Esther (1893-1980), Marion (1895-1977), Richard Folsom (1897-1974), Francis Grover (1903-1995)**

__Biographical Sketch:__
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”.

=__Political Experience__=
 * (Year-Year) Political Office 1
 * (Year-Year) Political Office 2
 * (Year-Year) Political Office 3
 * (Year-Year) Political Office 4
 * (Year-Year) Political Office 5

=__Presidential Administration__=

Secretary of the Navy: William C. Whitney (1885-1889) Hilary A. Herbert (1893-1897)
=__Domestic Affairs__=

=__Foreign Affairs__= In one-two paragraphs, summarize the major foreign policies/events of your President's administration.

=__Famous Quotes__= ' A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.' "A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice and the interest of the people themselves. "

=__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__= Include a chronological timeline of the most important historical and political events that occured during your president's administration.
 * (Year) Event 1
 * (Year) Event 2
 * (Year) Event 3
 * (Year) Event 4

=__Images__=


 * 1) Locate at least two pictures of the assigned president, one of which will be a "mug shot" to be placed at or near the top of the page.
 * 2) Locate at least two pictures of some event that occured during the president's term of office.

=__Links__=
 * 1) www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gc2224.html
 * 2) http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/clevevland
 * 3) http://grovercleveland.org/