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Grover Cleveland was the president before Benjamin Harrison
No. Harrison was a Republican that unseated Cleveland in the election of 1888. Cleveland returned the favor in 1892.
President Harrison favored annexation, but President Cleveland did not.
President Harrison favored annexation, but President Cleveland did not.
There have been two Presidents named Harrison. The first, William Henry, only served for about a month before he died of pneumonia. The second, Benjamin, served one full 4-year term. Benjamin Harrison's term came between Grover Cleveland's first and second terms (B. Harrison was the 23rd President, and Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President).
Benjamin Harrison, who was preceded and succeeded by Grover Cleveland, is the only President who was preceded and succeeded by the same person, as Cleveland still remains the only President who served two non-consecutive terms.
The 23rd president was the grandson of a former president, William Henry Harrison. He also was the first president to lose an election to a candidate he had previously defeated for the Oval Office. Harrison defeated incumbent president Grover Cleveland in 1888, but lost a re-election bid to Cleveland in 1892.
The 22nd President of the United States was Grover Cleveland March 4, 1885 March 4, 1889 The 24th President of the United States was Grover Cleveland March 4, 1893 March 4, 1897
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the US and his Vice President was Levi Morton.Grover Cleveland, who was President before Harrison, beat him in 1888 to become President again. Cleveland's Vice President for his second term was Adlai Stevenson (grandfather of the later Democratic candidate and UN Ambassador).
The U. S. President immediately before Grover Cleveland's first term was Chester A. Arthur (September, 1881 - March, 1885). The President immediately before Cleveland's second term (and immediately after his first) was Benjamin Harrison (March, 1889 - March, 1893).Chester A. Arthur preceded Cleveland's first term, and Benjamin Harrison preceded Cleveland's second term.
first Benjamin Harrison in 1889, then William McKinley in 1897.
Benjamin Harrison defeated an incumbent president, Grover Cleveland, only to lose to Cleveland in the next election. Harrison was America's 23rd President.