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He was one of only two presidents to be elected to serve non-consecutive terms. [b] Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo in 1881 and governor of New York in 1882. While governor, he closely cooperated with state assembly minority leader Theodore Roosevelt to pass reform measures, winning national attention. [1]
Grover Cleveland was president of the United States first from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889, and then from March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1897. The first Democrat elected after the Civil War, Cleveland is one of only two U.S. presidents to leave office after one term and later be elected for a second term, [a] and the only one to date to have served two full non-consecutive terms.
This was the 27th inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and final four-year term of Grover Cleveland as president and the only term of Adlai Stevenson I [2] as vice president. Cleveland had previously been the 22nd president, and was the first president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Since 1789, he said, only seven of 31 presidents served consecutive terms until Roosevelt, who was elected to a fourth term in 1944, and began that term before he died in 1945.
Grover Cleveland, the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He won the presidential elections of 1884 and 1892.
Trump isn't first to be second: Grover Cleveland set precedent of non-consecutive presidential terms By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On the list of U.S. presidents, several have been tapped by voters to serve for more than one term, with Donald Trump joining the group as the 45th president and now the 47th, too.
This is the case even with non-consecutive terms. Rules on term limits. Adopted in 1951, the 22nd Amendment was enacted in response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unprecedented four-term ...
In a November 2000 interview with Rolling Stone, President Bill Clinton suggested that the 22nd Amendment should be altered to limit presidents to two consecutive terms but then allow non-consecutive terms, because of longer life expectancies. [33]