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Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.He was the first Democrat to win election to the presidency after the Civil War and the first of two U.S. presidents to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Democratic Governor Grover Cleveland of New York narrowly defeated Republican James G. Blaine of Maine. Ending a streak of six consecutive Republican victories, Cleveland was the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1856. Cleveland won the presidential nomination on the second ballot of the 1884 Democratic National Convention.
In the fourth rematch in American history, the Democratic nominee, former president Grover Cleveland, defeated the incumbent Republican President Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland's victory made him the first president in American history to be elected to a non-consecutive second term, a feat not repeated until Donald Trump was elected in 2024.
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd president of the United States from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889, and then the 24th president from March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1897. [b] The first Democrat elected after the Civil War, Cleveland was the first U.S. president to leave office after one term and later be elected for a second term, [c] and the only one to date to have served two full non-consecutive ...
Trump – the nation's 45th president from 2017 to 2021 – is now set to serve a second term, this time as the 47th president. The first was Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president ...
They were duly elected and some did what we now look at to be a great job, some were perhaps less than stellar. ... Grover Cleveland was president in the 1880s and 1890s. People must find it hard ...
Cleveland, the first Democrat elected president after the Civil War, won the popular vote in all three of his elections, but lost the Electoral College in 1888.
[5] [6] Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 47 presidencies; the discrepancy arises from two individuals elected to non-consecutive terms: Grover Cleveland is counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, while Donald Trump is counted as the 45th and 47th president. [7] [8]