grover cleveland

     

Filmed signing a bill into law, in 1895 he became the first U.S. president to appear on moving film

Trivia about grover cleveland

  • Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat
  • March 4, 1885- March 3, 1889;March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897
  • He was so hefty he was nicknamed "Uncle Jumbo"; he probably preferred to be called "Our Grover"
  • Toward the end of Benjamin Harrison's term, this man was elected president of the U.S. for a second time
  • The fact that the 22nd & 24th presidents share a March 18, 1837 birthday isn't odd; they're both this man
  • Stephen was the real first name of this president who served 2 non-consecutive terms
  • He was the first Democratic president elected after the Civil War
  • This president was named for the Reverend Stephen Grover of Caldwell, New Jersey
  • 1884 reports that he committed his lover to an insane asylum nearly cost him the election
  • "The Buffalo Hangman"
  • When his wife woke him in 1893, fearing burglars in house, he said, "In the Senate maybe, not the House"
  • In 1905 this former U.S. president remarked, "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote"
  • (Kelly of the clue crew gives the clue from New York) Though ridiculed at first The Salvation Army's work was finally recognized in 1886 when this president invited them to the White House and endorsed their work
  • In the 19th c. his daughter Esther was the first & so far only child of a president to be born in the White House
  • Between his 2 nonconsecutive terms as president, he practiced law in New York City
  • The economic panic of 1893 hit shortly after he returned as the nation's 24th president
  • This president's political enemies referred to him as the "Beast of Buffalo"
  • Even after admitting he had sired an illegitimate child, he was still elected president in 1884
  • Carl Schurz was a leader of the Mugwumps, Republicans who left the party in 1884 to support this Democrat
  • The nation listened as this man took on the topic of civil service reform in his second inaugural address
  • In the first presidential White House wedding, he married Frances Folsom
  • In 1881 he was elected mayor of Buffalo, New York
  • Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there
  • as the sheriff of the Erie County Jail in Buffalo, sprang the trap to hang 2 criminals
  • As sheriff of Erie County, N.Y. he personally sprang the trap on 2 murderers
  • In his 1885 inaugural address he said that "Every voter... exercises a public trust"
  • He was the only president to deliver 2 nonconsecutive inaugural addresses
  • His operation for cancer of the jaw was kept secret until long after he left office in 1897
  • I might worry about hanging around with him--he was nicknamed the "Hangman of Buffalo"
  • In 1871, 14 years before his presidency, he was sheriff of Erie Co., N.Y. & carried out the hangings himself
  • Peeved at pork & patronage, he vetoed 584 bills in the 1880s & '90s
  • "The Hangman of Buffalo"
  • In 1885 this 22nd & 24th president said, "Office seeking is a disease...it is ever catching"
  • In July 1893 this president underwent a secret operation to remove part of his jaw due to cancer
  • William Hornblower & Wheeler Peckham gave this president back-to-back losses in 1894
  • This Buffalo lawyer was a bachelor during only the first of his 3 runs for the presidency
  • His wife Frances left the White House, returned 4 years later, & may have said, "Look what they've done to the place!"