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23 Jan 2010, 7:35 am
(The lone Democratic resident of the White House during this period, Grover Cleveland, was a business friendly Democrat who was very different from a populist candidate like William Jennings Bryan). [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 9:16 am
. #2 — John Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #3 — Thomas Jefferson (College of William & Mary, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #4 — James Madison (College of New Jersey — now Princeton — then read law) #6 — John Quincy Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #7 — Andrew Jackson (self-taught lawyer) #8 — Martin Van Buren (Kinderhook Academy, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #10 — John Tyler… [read post]
16 May 2017, 2:15 am
Then in 1885, the first Democratic president to take office since the Civil War, Grover Cleveland, named Ross as the governor of the New Mexico territory. [read post]
5 Nov 2016, 1:01 am
President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. [read post]
6 May 2011, 8:09 am
He went on to serve in the Confederate army and government; later, despite his secessionist activities, President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the Supreme Court. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 5:22 am
(Image Source: Anti-Grover Cleveland political cartoon of 1884, Wikicommons) [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 10:36 am
In 1905, Grover Cleveland said, "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 6:52 am
” When Democrat Grover Cleveland won the presidency in 1884, he promptly fired Payne as postmaster, labeling him an “offensive partisan. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 9:47 am
Immediately after the takeover of the government of the sovereign nation of Hawaii, President Grover Cleveland commissioned an investigation of this unauthorized coup. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 12:31 pm
Similarly, when Chief Justice Morrison Waite died in 1888, Grover Cleveland wanted to replace him with a Democrat, even though the Republicans held a narrow 39-37 margin in the Senate. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 4:57 am
In 1892, former president Grover Cleveland defeated incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, to whom Cleveland lost in the 1888 election. [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 4:39 am
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 because President Grover Cleveland and Congress were frightened of labor’s power. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 1:18 pm
Grover Cleveland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Happy Labor Day! [read post]
4 May 2010, 7:48 pm
Following the military judge’s voir dire, LCDR Grover questioned the panel. [read post]
6 May 2015, 10:53 am
The imminent retirement of David Letterman sent our mind back to all those grim law school days that foreclosed any smiles until after midnight, when Letterman's velcro suit, random items heaved off a roof, and stupid pet tricks helped us forget the indignities of Torts class or the opacities of Justice Blackmun. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 3:04 am
(Historical note: take this current legislation as an index of how far we have slid down that slippery slope identified by President Grover Cleveland in 1887. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:37 am
” For example, Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland had serious health problems while in office before the 25th Amendment went into effect. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 8:01 am
" Here are a few excerpts from a piece that deserves a full read and lots of attention even while other political matters are making bigger headlines: The first rule for handling requests for presidential pardons was set down in a report to Congress in 1887, during Grover Cleveland's first term in office. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 3:50 am
Then there are preemptive or oppositional presidents, who take office in the face of a political order opposed to their political views and who must triangulate and accommodate (think Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton). [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 6:39 am
Anthony chasing President Grover Cleveland with an umbrella in order to further her demands for women’s sufferage. [read post]
