 1837 - 1908 (71 years) Has 86 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Stephen Grover Cleveland |
| Prefix |
President |
| Birth |
18 Mar 1837 |
Caldwell, Essex, New Jersey, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
24 Jun 1908 |
Princeton Cemetery, Mercer, New Jersey, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
22 May 1942 |
SLAKE |
| FamilySearch ID |
LCJZ-3FN |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I90796 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Richard Falley Cleveland, b. 19 Jun 1804, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 1 Oct 1853, Holland Patent, Oneida, New York, United States (Age 49 years) |
| Mother |
Ann Neal, b. 4 Feb 1806, Baltimore City, Maryland, United States d. 19 Jul 1882, Holland Patent, Oneida, New York, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Marriage |
10 Sep 1829 |
Baltimore City, Maryland, United States |
| Family ID |
F30062 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Frances Clara Folsom, b. 21 Jul 1864, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States d. 29 Oct 1947, Baltimore City, Maryland, United States (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Jun 1886 |
White House, Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Ruth Cleveland, b. 3 Oct 1891, New York City, New York, New York, United States d. 7 Jan 1904, Washington, District of Columbia, United States (Age 12 years) |
| | 2. Esther Cleveland, b. 9 Sep 1892, Washington, District of Columbia, United States d. 25 Jun 1980, New Hampshire, United States (Age 87 years) |
| | 3. Marion Cleveland, b. 1895, Buzzards Bay, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States d. 18 Jun 1977 (Age 82 years) |
| | 4. Richard Cleveland, b. 1897, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States d. 1974 (Age 77 years) |
| | 5. Frances Grover Cleveland, b. 1903, Buzzards Bay, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States d. Nov 1995, Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States (Age 92 years) |
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| Family ID |
F30064 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Notes |
- 22nd & 24th President of the United States.
He was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24 t h president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 189 7 . Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two nonc on secutive terms in office. He won the popular vote for three presidenti a l elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (follo we d by Woodrow Wilson in 1912) to be elected president during the era o f Re publican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.
In 1881, Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo and later, governor of N e w York. He was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opp os ed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies t o bu siness, farmers, or veterans. His crusade for political reform and f isca l conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the er a. Cl eveland won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and c ommitm ent to the principles of classical liberalism. He fought politica l corrup tion, patronage, and bossism. As a reformer, Cleveland had suc h prestig e that the like-minded wing of the Republican Party, called "Mu gwumps", l argely bolted the GOP presidential ticket and swung to his sup port in th e 1884 election. As his second administration began, disaste r hit the nat ion when the Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depre ssion. It ruin ed his Democratic Party, opening the way for a Republica n landslide in 18 94 and for the agrarian and silverite seizure of the De mocratic Party i n 1896. The result was a political realignment that ende d the Third Part y System and launched the Fourth Party System and the Pr ogressive Era.
Cleveland was a formidable policymaker, and he also drew corresponding c r iticism. His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 to keep the rai lr oads moving angered labor unions nationwide in addition to the party i n I llinois; his support of the gold standard and opposition to Free Silv er a lienated the agrarian wing of the Democratic Party.[5] Critics compl aine d that Cleveland had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by th e nat ion's economic disasters—depressions and strikes—in his second term . Eve n so, his reputation for probity and good character survived the tr ouble s of his second term. Biographer Allan Nevins wrote, "[I]n Grover C levela nd, the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities. H e had n o endowments that thousands of men do not have. He possessed hone sty, cou rage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possesse d them t o a degree other men do not." By the end of his second term, pub lic perce ption showed him to be one of the most unpopular U.S. president s, and h e was by then rejected even by most Democrats. Today, Clevelan d is consid ered by most historians to have been a successful leader, an d has been pr aised for honesty, integrity, adherence to his morals and d efying party b oundaries, and effective leadership.
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