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Grover Cleveland

22nd and 24th president of the United States
Also known as: Stephen Grover Cleveland
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Grover Cleveland (born March 18, 1837, Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S.ā€”died June 24, 1908, Princeton, New Jersey) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States (1885ā€“89 and 1893ā€“97) and the first president ever to serve two discontinuous terms. Cleveland distinguished himself as one of the few truly honest and principled politicians of the Gilded Age. His view of the presidentā€™s function as primarily to block legislative excesses made him quite popular during his first...

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