President Grover Cleveland

Fun Facts

• He was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War.
• He was the 22nd and 24th president of the united states of America.
• He was the only president to leave the white house and come back 4 years latter.

His Life

• He was one of the nine children of a Presbyterian minister.
• He was born in Pennsylvania in 1837.
• He was raised in up state New York as a lawyer in Buffalo.

Presidential life

• He did not want to eat fancy he once wrote this to his friend ' I must go to diner but I wish it was to eat a pickled herring A Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis' instead of the French stuff I shall find.'
• He won the election by the votes of democrats and reformer republicans "Mugwumps".

Wedding

• He was married in June 1886 to 21 year old Frances Folsom.
• He was the only president married in the white house.

In office

• He vetoed a bill to give farmers in Texas $10,000 In grain.
• He vetoed many private bills by fraudulent Civil War veterans.
• He signed the Interstate commerce act.

Credits

• Thanks to https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/grovercleveland22