Grover Cleveland is known for being the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was a member of the Democratic party.
Grover Cleveland was the first successful presidential candidate of the modern Democratic Party- maybe you could say he created it.
Grover Cleveland was a member of the Democratic party. In fact, he was the first Democrat elected from the new Democratic Party formed after the Civil War.
Grover Cleveland
Andrew Jackson was the founder of the pre Civil War Democratic party. The party split and died when the Civil War began and was revived as an opposition party but not by any president. The first President they managed to elect was Grover Cleveland.
In the Presidential Election of 1880, the Republicans nominated James A. Garfield of Ohio, the Democrats nominated Winfield S. Hancock of Pennsylvania, and the Greenback-Labor Party nominated James B. Weaver of Iowa. James A. Garfield won the election, becoming the 20th President of the United States.
The first president nominated by the modern Democratic party was Grover Cleveland. The modern Democrats have some ties to the party began by Andrew Jackson, so one can make a case the Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat to be President. (Thomas Jefferson is sometimes called the first(small d) democratic president , as opposed to the federalists who wanted a stronger federal government at the expense of state and local government and individual freedom. )
In the 1888 Presidential election, Grover Cleveland, the incumbent, was running on the ticket for the Democrats. Benjamin Harrison was the nominee for the Republicans. Grover Cleveland won the popular vote by a small margin, but Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote 233-168.
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Grover Cleveland serves as the 22nd US president and skipped to be the 24th US president. He was a member of the Democratic Party and his years of service covered 1885 to 1889. His second term was from 1893 to 1897. He was a unique man, and a persistent one too.
Benjamin Harrison won the 1888 presidential election defeating incumbent President Grover Cleveland. In the 1888 presidential election Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes and Grover Cleveland received 168 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Cleveland 5,534,488 and Harrison 5,443,892. Grover Cleveland won the 1892 presidential election defeating incumbent President Benjamin Harrison. In the 1892 presidential election Grover Cleveland received 277 electoral votes and Benjamin Harrison received 145 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Cleveland 5,551,883 and Harrison 5,179,244. People's Party candidate James Weaver received 1,027,329 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.
No. Cleveland , Ohio was named for Gen. Moses Cleaveland who headed the party that surveyed the area and laid out plans to develop the city in 1796, The spelling of changed in 1831 by the local newspaper which dropped the first "a" to make the name fit more neatly into the masthead of the paper.