They had five children, including "Baby" Ruth Cleveland, the first child born to the wife of a sitting U. In , Cleveland defeated James G. Blaine R in the general election for the United States presidency. Every year in office, the president of the United States addresses Congress on the present state of affairs as well as the administration's goals for the coming year. Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers.
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Categories : presidential candidate presidential candidate presidential candidate U. Voter information What's on my ballot? Where do I vote? How do I register to vote? Grover Cleveland , who served as the 22nd and 24th U. Cleveland worked as a lawyer and then served as mayor of Buffalo, New York, and governor of New York state before assuming the presidency in His record in the Oval Office was mixed. Not regarded as an original thinker, Cleveland considered himself a watchdog over Congress rather than an initiator.
In his second term, he angered many of his original supporters and seemed overwhelmed by the Panic of and the depression that followed. He declined to run for a third term. Unable to afford a college education, he worked as a teacher in a school for the blind in New York City and then as a clerk in a law firm in Buffalo, New York.
After clerking for several years, Cleveland passed the state bar examination in He started his own law firm in Cleveland did not fight in the American Civil War ; when the Conscription Act was passed in , he paid a Polish immigrant to serve in his place. During his two-year term, he carried out the death sentence by hanging of three convicted murderers.
In , he returned to his law practice. He was persuaded to run for mayor of Buffalo in as a reformer of a corrupt city government. He won the election and took office in His reputation as an opponent of machine politics grew so rapidly that he was asked to run as the Democratic candidate for governor of New York. Cleveland became governor in January He was so opposed to unnecessary government spending that he vetoed eight bills sent up by the legislature in his first two months in office.
But while Cleveland was popular with the voters, he made enemies within his own party, particularly the powerful Tammany Hall political machine in New York City. However, he won the respect of New York state assemblyman and future U. Cleveland was soon regarded as presidential material. Cleveland won the Democratic presidential nomination in in spite of the opposition of Tammany Hall.
Senator James G. Blaine of Maine , was implicated in several financial scandals, while Cleveland was involved in a paternity case in which he admitted that he had paid child support in to a woman who claimed he was the father of her child.
When railroad strikers in Chicago violated an injunction, Cleveland sent Federal troops to enforce it. So did the vigorous way in which he forced Great Britain to accept arbitration of a disputed boundary in Venezuela. But his policies during the depression were generally unpopular.
His party deserted him and nominated William Jennings Bryan in He died in The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse. Copyright by the White House Historical Association. We'll be in touch with the latest information on how President Biden and his administration are working for the American people, as well as ways you can get involved and help our country build back better. You have JavaScript disabled. Please enable JavaScript to use this feature.
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