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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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1872 |
As Sheriff, he personally springs the trap on two convicted murderers. |
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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 |
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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. |
