Grover Cleveland
The 22nd and 24th President
General Biography
Early Career
Career as President
Cleveland's Life After His First Term
Cleveland's Achievements as President
2) Stood on the side of the gold standard in the ongoing currency debate and tried to reduce the amount of silver the government was required to coin under the Bland-Allison Act of 1878
3) Watched over the dedication of the Statue of Liberty
Cleveland's Failures / Blunders as President
2) Cleveland believed that the government should not help the people but the people should help the government. This became an issue when the people needed the governments help in the Panic of 1893.
3) Cleveland used the veto power way more than any president before him which made it hard to get any beneficial law passed.
Popularity
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Vice President: Thomas A. Hendricks (1885-1889)
Members of Cabinet
Thomas F. Bayard (1885-1889)
Secretary of the Treasury:
Daniel Manning (1885-1887)
Charles S. Fairchild (1887-1889)
Secretary of War:
William C. Endicott (1885-1889)
Attorney General:
Augustus H. Garland (1885-1889)
Postmaster General:
William F. Vilas (1885-1888)
Donald M. Dickinson (1888-1889)
Secretary of the Navy:
William C. Whitney (1885-1889)
Secretary of the Interior:
Lucius Q. C. Lamar (1885-1888)
William F. Vilas (1888-1889)
Secretary of Agriculture:
Norman J. Colman (1889)
Daniel Manning
1885-1887
Thomas F. Bayard
1885-1889
William Collins Whitney
1885-1889
Is Cleveland Electable Today?
Random Facts
2) A body part of Cleveland's resides at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. It is his "secret tumor", an epithelioma removed from the roof of his mouth during his second term.
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