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24 unusual facts about Grover Cleveland


Ayer's Cliff, Quebec

These included the railroad mogul Charles Keller Beekman, Chicago attorney David Leavitt Hough, Charles W. Parker, and George Fuller Parker, a close friend of President Grover Cleveland.

Benjamin P. Lamberton

He lived in Washington, D.C. during his retirement, enjoying duck hunting and fishing with his friend President Grover Cleveland.

Benjamin Pickard

In 1897 his interest in arbitration and the work of the Peace Society led to his inclusion in a peace deputation to the president of the United States, Grover Cleveland.

Charles Bowen Howry

Howry was nominated by President Grover Cleveland to the seat on the Court of Claims vacated by the promotion of Charles C. Nott to Chief Justice of that court.

Charles Brantley Aycock

His political career began in 1888 as a presidential elector for Grover Cleveland, when he gained distinction as an orator and political debater.

Cleveland, Utah

Cleveland was named after Grover Cleveland who was President of the United States in the 1880s.

Conrad Krez

In 1885, he was appointed U.S. Collector of Customs of Milwaukee by President Grover Cleveland.

David G. Swaim

President Grover Cleveland reinstated him, and he retired immediately afterward.

Ebenezer J. Ormsbee

In 1887, President Grover Cleveland proposed to return Confederate flags captured by Union troops during the Civil War.

Edward Lloyd Thomas

In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed him to a position as a Special Agent of the Land Bureau in Kansas.

Eleonora Duse

In 1896, Duse completed a triumphant tour of the United States; in Washington President Grover Cleveland and his wife attended every performance.

Hajji Washington

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori is sent to the United States, then under the presidency of Grover Cleveland, to open up the first embassy for Iran by Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar.

Hector, Arkansas

The community was named for President Grover Cleveland's dog by the President himself when postal officials grew frustrated with the resident's indecision on whether to name the community Avondale or The Plain.

History of antisemitism in the United States

It was disclosed that President Grover Cleveland had sold bonds to a syndicate which included J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds house, bonds which that syndicate was now selling for a profit, the Populists used it as an opportunity to uphold their view of history, and prove to the nation that Washington and Wall Street were in the hands of the international Jewish banking houses.

Below, figures labeled "Republicanism" (Caricature of James G. Blaine) and "Democracy" (Caricature of Grover Cleveland) pick Uncle Sam's pockets.

James Fount Tillman

Fount Tillman (1854 – March, 1899) was the eighth Register of the Treasury, and served during the second term of President Grover Cleveland.

James W. Davidson

In June 1897, he was appointed by President Cleveland consular agent for the island of Formosa, where he remained nine years, during which time he wrote numerous monographs on Formosan affairs.

John J. Hawkins

President Grover Cleveland nominated Hawkins to replace Edmund W. Wells in Arizona's fourth judicial district in April 1893.

Joseph Sadoc Alemany

After his resignation, Archbishop Alemany left San Francisco in May 1885, he toured New York, was presented by Catholic General William Rosecrans to President Grover Cleveland.

M. R. D. Foot

He was at one time married to the British philosopher Philippa Foot (née Bosanquet), the granddaughter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland.

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital

Richard F. Cleveland, the eldest son of the late U.S. President Grover Cleveland and last original founding member becomes Board President in 1952.

Robert S. Kelley

In 1885 Kelley was appointed by President Grover Cleveland the 5th United States Marshal for Montana, and served in that office with official integrity until the day President Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated, when he resigned, believing that the party in power should have control of all the Federal patronage and be held responsible for it.

Thomas Sheldon Maxey

On June 18, 1888, Maxey was nominated by President Grover Cleveland to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas vacated by Ezekiel B. Turner.

William Boothby

In the second half of the 19th century, the use of the secret ballot spread to the USA and to Europe; in 1892 Grover Cleveland became the first US President elected by Boothby’s system, universally referred to as 'the Australian ballot' for nearly a century.


106th New York State Legislature

The 106th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to May 4, 1883, during the first year of Grover Cleveland's governorship, in Albany.

1884 in the United States

November 4 – United States presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.

Albert Hobbs

In 1884, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican ticket (pledged to James G. Blaine), but New York was carried by Democrat Grover Cleveland.

Andrew H. Burke

The state participated in the 1892 U.S. presidential election, when Grover Cleveland was elected to a second term as President of the United States.

Bill Tilghman

A Democrat, Tilghman had been a delegate to his party's 1904 convention, which met in St. Louis, Missouri, to nominate New York Judge Alton B. Parker, a former law partner of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, to run against the successful Republican incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt.

Butzel Long

Dickinson developed a national reputation as a lawyer and gained prominence in national politics as an adviser to Grover Cleveland.

Conrad N. Jordan

A Democrat, Jordan supported Grover Cleveland in the 1884 presidential election and worked with the campaign team drawing up plans to reform the United States Department of the Treasury.

Daniel Maynard Burgess

Burgess died within minutes of giving final instructions on the publication of his memoir, in which he reminisces about numerous acquaintances of note including Presidents Grant, Arthur and Cleveland; Generals Winfield Scott, Philip Sheridan, and Robert E. Lee; Daniel Webster, Mark Hanna, Roscoe Conkling, William Tweed, Charles Dana, F. Hopkinson Smith, and King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.

De Alva S. Alexander

It focused on prominent political leaders such as Grover Cleveland, Thomas C. Platt, and Theodore Roosevelt.

East Marion, New York

The Orient Point Inn, which opened in 1796, played host to President Grover Cleveland, poet Walt Whitman, orator Daniel Webster, actress Sarah Bernhardt and author James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote "Sea Lions", set in Orient.

Edward Hibberd Johnson

In 1895, U.S. President Grover Cleveland proudly sponsored the first electrically lit Christmas tree in the White House.

Edward Parke Custis Lewis

He was also a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention and a member of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee in 1884, when he was active in the presidential campaign of Grover Cleveland.

Edwin Warfield

During the 1884 Presidential election, Warfield made significant contributions to the campaign of President Grover Cleveland in Maryland.

Foshalee Plantation

Between the late 1910s and early 1920s, Hutchinson sold Foshalee to Harry Payne Whitney, United States Secretary of the Navy under Grover Cleveland, a yachtsman, and horse breeder.

George B. Zimpelman

He served as a Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress delegate and later served as Colonel on Gen. Sul Ross' (later Texas governor) staff; was postmaster at Austin four years during President Cleveland's administration, and again served a four-year term under President Roosevelt, he was a member of the Knights Templar; of the Elks Lodge; and of the John B. Hood Camp of Confederate Veterans.

Henry Franklin Severens

On May 14, 1886, Severens was nominated by President Grover Cleveland to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan vacated by Solomon Lewis Withey.

Herbert Hoover Supreme Court candidates

Additionally, with his failed nomination of John J. Parker, Hoover became the first president since Grover Cleveland to have a Supreme Court nomination rejected by the United States Senate.

Holbrooke Hotel

Several notable people stayed at the hotel including “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Lotta Crabtree, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bret Harte, Jack London, Lola Montez, Emma Nevada, Mark Twain, and five US Presidents: Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Herbert Hoover.

Holmes Conrad

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland appointed him Assistant Attorney General of the U.S., and in 1895 he became Solicitor General.

Lewis Samuel Partridge

In 1884 he served as President of Vermont’s Cleveland and Hendricks Club, and when Cleveland took office in 1885 Partridge was again appointed Norwich’s Postmaster.

North Cleveland Park

North Cleveland Park should also not be confused with the neighboring Cleveland Park community to its south; although both are part of the original tract of land on which Grover Cleveland built his summer estate in the 1880s, they are two separate neighborhoods.

Second inauguration of Richard Nixon

Johnson thus became the sixth president who died during his immediate successor's administration, following George Washington (1799), James K. Polk (1849), Andrew Johnson (1875), Chester A. Arthur (1886) and Calvin Coolidge (1933), who died during the administrations of John Adams, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland (1st term), and Herbert Hoover, respectively.

William Wade Dudley

In 1888 having been made Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Dudley was involved in the 1888 elections and one of the most intense political campaigns in decades, with Indiana dead even between Democrats and incumbent, President Grover Cleveland – and Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.