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The Grover Cleveland Administrations

Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. A conservative Democrat, he stuck doggedly to his ideals; however, he did little to mollify discontented farmers and could not unite his own party. After being defeated by Benjamin Harrison in the election of 1888, he came back to regain the presidency in 1892 but found the country sliding into the worst economic depression of the nineteenth century. Despite his integrity and commitment, his policies lacked the imagination to unite the country on a course to economic recovery.

Cleveland Becomes President

The Campaign of 1884

The 1884 presidential campaign proved to be one of the nastiest that the nation had ever witnessed. Issues such as the tariff, the restrictions...