Grover Cleveland
Serving two terms as president, Grover Cleveland had his first term from 1885 to 1889. Losing the re-election the first time around, Cleveland wound up winning again in 1893 and remaining in office until 1897. Conservatives praise him for his fiscal policy and since he advocated for political reform. While in his second term, Cleveland had to deal with the Panic of 1893 which was an awful economic downturn, along with a massive nationwide railroad strike which is known as the Pullman Strike of 1894. A descendant of one of the first families to move to the new world, they traveled from England to Massachusetts in 1635. As written by his biographer, Cleveland was a fantastic public speaker: “He possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possessed them to a degree other men do not”. Even with a less successful second term, Cleveland is considered to be one of the better US presidents.
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland’s Marriage
Grover Cleveland was and still is the only American president to get married at the White House. But the story wasn’t so much that he got married there, but rather to whom he got married. His new wife was only 21 years old, but very much a grown woman. She was fluent in French, charismatic and apparently attractive too. Despite being 28 years older than she was, they were very much in love, and it seems that the public loved them too.
Clevelands Marriage
