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Hedcut-style ink portrait of Grover Cleveland
Drawn from a photo by Napoleon Sarony (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

22nd & 24th President of the United States

Grover Cleveland

“Uncle Jumbo”

In office
March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889
March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897
Party
Democratic
Home state
New York
Lived
1837–1908
Days in office
2,922
In order
No. 22: after Chester A. Arthur, before Benjamin Harrison
No. 24: after Benjamin Harrison, before William McKinley
Vice presidents
Thomas A. Hendricks, Adlai E. Stevenson

Key achievements & events

  • Only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (until Donald Trump)
  • Vetoed over 400 bills in his first term alone, more than all 21 predecessors combined
  • Signed the Interstate Commerce Act (1887), the first federal regulation of railroads
  • Faced the Panic of 1893 and sent troops to end the Pullman Strike (1894)

Remember: He married 21-year-old Frances Folsom in the White House in 1886, the only president married there.