Cleveland Administrations - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
In 1885 Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since James Buchanan left office in 1861, just before the American Civil War (1861–65). Buchanan's successor, Abraham Lincoln, was a strong leader, but the succeeding presidents were not. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, was impeached when he failed to endorse Congress's Reconstruction policy (the policy for reincorporating rebellious southern states back into the Union after the end of the American Civil War). The trend toward a strong Congress and a weak executive continued.
Cleveland was elected president based on the reputation he had earned as the reform governor of the state of New York by standing up to the powerful political machines that controlled New York City, Tammany Hall. Supported by the Mugwumps (Republicans who had switched camps due to the corruption that tainted the candidacy of the popular James G. Blaine of Maine),...
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