Cleveland, Grover

Cultural  

1. A Democratic party political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who was president from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897 — the only president ever to serve nonconsecutive terms. Cleveland's presidencies were marked by his fight against corruption in the federal government and by his efforts to solve national financial problems.

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Example Sentences

“The steady drumbeat that inspired defendant to take up arms has not faded away,” Berman wrote in her ruling ordering Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. to remain in custody.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2021

Not long after, on June 24, 1908, a messenger came to him with a note from Mrs. Cleveland: "Grover Cleveland died at 8:40 a.m. today."

From Time Magazine Archive

Cleveland, Grover, orders troops to Chicago, 414; 413.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

Cleveland, Grover, intervenes in Venezuelan boundary dispute, 48; withholds Kongo treaty from Senate, 61; Venezuelan policy justified by events, 115; favours general arbitration treaty with England, 116.

From From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by Latane, John Holladay

See Churches Cleveland, Grover, 421, 465, 482, 484, 489, 582 Clinton, Sir Henry, 119 Colorado, admission, 441 Combination.

From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)