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24 Jun 2019, 2:20 am
The Democrats failed to hold the presidency twice in the late 19th Century, both times following an administration of Grover Cleveland, who did win two non-consecutive terms. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 8:01 am
They were identified as 78-year-old Abel Cleveland Grover and 51-year-old Kai Uwe Wulff. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 2:55 am
In 1886, Congress and the Grover Cleveland administration pressed for changes in the secession act after Cleveland’s Vice President, Thomas Hendricks, had died. [read post]
31 Jan 2019, 10:30 pm
Otto Schnering—owner of the Curtiss Candy Company of Chicago—insisted that the candy’s name referred to former President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, who was born in 1891. [read post]
3 Mar 2016, 2:29 pm
Blaine (Republican) and Grover Cleveland (Democrat) at a time when women were not allowed to vote, she received 4,194 votes. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 7:08 pm
None of the other 43 previous presidents (Grover Cleveland was 22 and 24) were indicted for even a single crime, Ulysses Grant’s need for speed notwithstanding. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 10:18 am
While we’ve just inaugurated our 45th President, only 44 men have held the job – Grover Cleveland is counted twice due to his non-consecutive terms in office. [read post]
10 May 2011, 3:55 am
Ayazi, a former teacher of English as a Second Language employed by the New York City School District’s Grover Cleveland High School, filed charges with PERB alleging that her union, the United Federation of Teachers [UFT]: 1. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:38 pm
Grover Cleveland 1885 No Not applicable Benjamin Harrison 1889 Yes, Stanley Matthews died on President Harrison’s 18th day in office. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 7:31 am
This is the fifth time in America history, where the elected President will have received less popular votes than their opponent but enough electoral votes to win the presidency.It happened in: 1876 (Rutherford B Hayes over Samuel Tilden - and boy was that a mess of an election); 1888 (Benjamin Harrison over President Grover Cleveland); famously in 2000 with Bush v. [read post]
16 Oct 2021, 7:11 am
Tillman was known as "Pitchfork Ben" because of his aggressive language, as when he threatened to use a pitchfork to prod that "bag of beef," President Grover Cleveland. [read post]
19 Jan 2013, 7:35 am
Grover Cleveland... ... and Teddy Roosevelt, whose asthma and elephant gun were just a frame for his mustache. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 9:25 am
“Conceived by America’s labor unions as a testament to their cause, the legislation sanctioning the holiday was shepherded through Congress amid labor unrest and signed by President Grover Cleveland as a reluctant election-year compromise,” according to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/business/july-dec01/labor_day_9-2.html. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 4:20 am
Grover Cleveland helped make Labor Day a national holiday. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 3:22 am
The king of presidential vetoes was Grover Cleveland, whose Democrats only controlled Congress for two of his eight years in office. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
In the 1888 election, in particular, Republican Senator Benjamin Harrison defeated the Democratic incumbent, Grover Cleveland, although Harrison lost the popular vote by 90,596 votes.[4] In what is becoming a familiar narrative, it was the third election (and second in twelve years) in which the popular vote winner lost the Electoral College. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 4:48 pm
A much more robust effort to mislead the public developed in 1893 when Grover Cleveland—ironically regarded as a generally honest and forthcoming president—learned that a growth on the roof of his mouth was malignant. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 9:54 am
It was not until 1886 that President Grover Cleveland authorized the construction of the new Library building (24 Stat. 12). [read post]
8 Oct 2023, 1:01 am
He declined three separate appointments offered by President Grover Cleveland before accepting the nomination to succeed Morrison Waite as chief justice. [read post]
9 May 2017, 2:35 am
Grover Cleveland He was a teacher at the New York Institute for the Blind in Manhattan before deciding to pursue a law career. [read post]
