Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center. University of Virginia Miller Center. Grover Cleveland: Impact and Legacy. Breadcrumb U. Henry F. Opposed to using legislation to bring about social change, he is best known for strengthening the executive branch of the federal government in relation to Congress.
By the fall of , Cleveland had become unpopular with some factions in his own party. Other Democrats, however, wanted him to run for a third term, as there was no term limit for presidents at that time. Cleveland declined, and former U. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska won the nomination. After leaving the White House in , Cleveland retired to his home in Princeton, New Jersey, and served as a trustee of Princeton University from until his death.
He refused overtures from his party to run again for the presidency in His health began to fail rapidly at the end of and he died of a heart attack at the age of 71 on June 24, Start your free trial today.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Frances Cleveland was the wife of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Just 21 years old when she became first lady, Frances Cleveland holds a number of distinctions in presidential history: She was the youngest first lady in American Chester Arthur , the 21st U. As president from to , Arthur advocated for civil service reform.
A Vermont native, he became active in Republican politics in the s as a New While his support for protective tariffs led to rising prices for consumers and arguably paved Rutherford B. Hayes , the 19th president of the United States, won a controversial and fiercely disputed election against Samuel Tilden.
He withdrew troops from the Reconstruction states in order to restore local control and good will, a decision that many perceived William McKinley served in the U. Congress and as governor of Ohio before running for the presidency in As a longtime champion of protective tariffs, the Republican McKinley ran on a platform of promoting American prosperity and won a landslide victory over Democrat Cleveland signed the disastrous Dawes Act of , which empowered the president to allot land within the reservations to individual Native Americans, with all surplus land reverting to the public domain.
The policy essentially legalized the stealing of land from Native Americans. During the administrations of Grover Cleveland, the municipal, state, and federal governments adopted numerous new laws, anticipating the reforms of the Progressive Era.
Cleveland asserted his independence from Congress with an unprecedented number of vetoes and forceful use of presidential authority in his second term. He personally answered the White House phone. He was the only president to be married and to have a child born in the White House. He was also the first president to moonlight as an actor, starring in A Capital Courtship , a photoplay in which he was filmed signing a bill into law.
He was also the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office; he lost the election, but won in to become the twenty-fourth—as well as the twenty-second—president. While Cleveland is not necessarily known for the deeds of his presidency, he is remembered for his honest reputation and his efforts to maintain that reputation, both for himself and the government of the United States.
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