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10 Nov 2016, 12:00 pm by Harold O'Grady
In 1888, Benjamin Harrison won the presidency with 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 3:10 am by Scott Bomboy
Steele says the combination of a government surplus and a heavy tax burden on consumers led President Grover Cleveland's administration to pass a second income tax law in 1894. [read post]
4 Sep 2016, 8:12 am by Harold O'Grady
In reaction to the strike, President Grover Cleveland mobilized federal troops which escalated the violence leading to several deaths. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 3:10 am by Scott Bomboy
Executive Orders, First Month Of New Administration Year President Orders Notes 1829 Andrew Jackson 1 Army pensions 1837 Martin Van Buren 1 Surgeon General to accompany ex-President Jackson 1841 William Henry Harrison 0 1841 Martin Van Buren 0 1845 James Polk 0 1849 Zachary Taylor 0 1850 Millard Fillmore 1 Funeral closures for President Taylor 1853 Franklin Pierce 1 Construction of White House wings 1857 James Buchanan 0 1861 Abraham Lincoln 0 Writ suspension came after six weeks in office… [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 12:25 pm by Keith E. Whittington
Benjamin Harrison had a harder time because the Democratic minority had the ability to run out the clock with a filibuster and wait for the incoming Democrat Grover Cleveland to be sworn in. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 10:48 pm
Many of you answered correctly that Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the US. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 11:46 am by David Lat
Read my interview with Grover Cleveland — yes, I ask him about the origin of his name — over here.8. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 4:30 am by Nick Farr
One of my favorites involves the Baby Ruth bar: it's a famous trivia answer that the candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's daughter, rather than the baseball player Babe Ruth. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm by Old Fox
  Democratic President Grover Cleveland removed Frederick Douglas from office but Republican President Benjamin Harrison reappointed him.Very few today know that in 1808 Congress abolished the slave trade. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 9:50 am by JB
McKinley had the advantage that his predecessor, Grover Cleveland, took the blame for the terrible economy caused by the Panic of 1893. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 4:30 am
  But any place that was the home of Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Chelsea Handler, Stephen Crane, David Chase, Patti Smith, Grover Cleveland, the Football Giants, the world’s best tomatoes, and a statute that puts the kibosh on punies has plenty of cause for pride. [read post]
4 Sep 2016, 9:09 am by Jim Gerl
 Later that year, with Congress passing legislation and President Grover Cleveland signing the bill on June 29, the first Monday in September was designated “Labor Day. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 1:08 pm
Consider this next news item, out of Cleveland (H/T: Ace of Spades):A myth that President Obama is giving people money to pay their bills has prompted thousands of people across the country to try to pay for utilities, phone service and loans using bogus bank routing numbers.United Way of Cleveland's 2-1-1 changed its answering machine Monday to say rumors of the Obama program were false after fielding dozens of calls.Later that day, a United Way employee was on an RTA bus… [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 6:03 am
We are in the midst of a second Gilded Age, in which appointees of either pro-business Democrats (Clinton now, Grover Cleveland then) or pro-business Republicans, dominate the Court. [read post]
4 May 2011, 1:51 am by Kevin LaCroix
 The firm can boast of a former President among its alumni, as Grover Cleveland was a member of a predecessor firm during the period between his two separate Presidential terms. [read post]
6 Sep 2019, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
When Democratic President Grover Cleveland continued to support the gold standard against the will of much of his party, activists determined to take over the Democratic Party organization and nominate a silver-supporting candidate in 1896. [read post]
11 Nov 2017, 2:05 am by NCC Staff
Of the 44 men who have served as President (remember, Grover Cleveland served twice) so far, 31 had some type of military experience, either in active service, in the reserves or in a militia. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
President Grover Cleveland used the US Army to break the strike. [read post]