Grover Cleveland - Table of Contents
Grover Cleveland - Table of Contents
Grover Cleveland - A Chronology
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Main and Swan Streets, Buffalo, NY. Grover Cleveland's law office was on the second floor to the left of the stairway. |
Sculptor: Bryant Baker. |
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3 of the 5 Cleveland children. |
A. G. Thurman ran as Cleveland's vice-president in 1888. They were defeated. |
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Stevenson served as Cleveland's vice-president in Cleveland's second term (1893-1897) |
Stevenson & Cleveland |
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1837 |
March 18 - Grover Cleveland born in Caldwell, New Jersey, to Congregationalist minister the Reverend Richard Falen Cleveland and Anne Neal Cleveland. |
| 1855 |
Arrived in Buffalo on April 12 and lived with his uncle, Lewis F. Allen at 1192 Niagara St., for six months. (His aunt was Margaret Cleveland, 1801-1880) |
| 1856-61 |
Boarded at 11 Oak St. |
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1859 |
Admitted to the bar |
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1862 |
Avoids the Civil War draft by paying $500 to a recently
arrived Polish immigrant Boarded at 29 Swan St. in 1862-63 |
| 1866 |
With law firm Vanderpoel & Co. over the Old Post Office |
| 1867 |
Law office in Hollister Block |
| 1868 | Rooming at United States Hotel, Pearl corner Terrace |
| 1869 |
Rooming at Pearl Street corner Swan |
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1870 |
Elected Sheriff of Erie County |
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1870 |
Appointed to the first Board of Managers of the State
Normal School at Buffalo Boarding at 22 W. Seneca |
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1872 |
As Sheriff, he personally springs the trap on two convicted murderers. |
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Boarding at 51 Niagara |
| 1873 |
Home, Room "F" Weed Block, 2nd floor; his office was also here |
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1881 |
Elected Mayor of Buffalo. (1882-1883) |
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1882 |
Elected Governor of New York (1883-1885) |
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1883 |
Gov. Cleveland signs a bill authorizing what will become
the Niagara Reservation In Albany |
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1884 |
Elected 22nd President of the U. S. (1885-1889) Thomas A. Hendricks, V-P |
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1886 |
June 2, marries Frances Folsom |
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1888 |
Based on electoral votes, Benjamin Harrison
defeats Grover Cleveland who wins the popular vote. Cleveland is the only person
who won the popular vote for president three times. Cleveland's running mate as V-P is A. G. Thurman |
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1891 |
Clevelands' first child born: Ruth (1891-1904) According to the National Confectioner's Association, the Baby Ruth candy bar was named for Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth - although she died in 1904, and the candy was not manufactured until 1920, by the Curtiss Candy Company in Chicago. |
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1892 |
Elected 24th President of the U. S. (1893-1897) Adlai E. Stevenson, V-P |
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1893 |
Clevelands' second child born: Esther (1893-1980) |
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1895 |
Clevelands' third child born: Marion (1895-1977) |
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1897 |
Clevelands' fourth child born: Richard Folsom (1897-1974) |
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1903 |
Clevelands' fifth child born: Francis (1903-1995) |
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1908 |
Dies, June 24 in Princeton, N.J. |
