Stephen Grover Cleveland ~ March 18, 1837 - June 24, 1908

22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889, 1893-1897
Grover Cleveland sites visited:
Before becoming President, Cleveland served as the Mayor of Buffalo, New York in 1882 (and the Governor of New York 1883-1884). Buffalo has a statue of him downtown.
Cleveland did not attend college but studied law and was admitted to the New York bar.
His statue in the City of Presidents, Rapids City, South Dakota:
Cleveland entered the Presidency as a bachelor and married Frances Folsom in the White House in 1886. It is the only White House wedding of a sitting President. Grover was 49 years old and Frances was 21. We found this marker and his portrait on a tour of the White House.
Grover Cleveland is buried in Princeton Cemetery in New Jersey with his wife and eldest of his five children, Ruth, who died at age 12.
Their second child, Esther, was born in 1893, the first child born to an incumbent President.
Grover never used his first name Stephen as an adult. He opposed the women's suffrage movement and was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock. He also was the first Democratic President elected after the Civil War. The "Veto King" retired with his family to Princeton, New Jersey, after his second term as President.
"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."

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