Grover Cleveland
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 Grover Cleveland facts

• He won the popular vote for three presidential elections – in 1884, 1888, and 1892 – and was one of two Democrats (with Woodrow Wilson) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933
• He was also the first and to date only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office
• Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans
• His crusade for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era
• Cleveland won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism
• He relentlessly fought political corruption, patronage, and bossism
• As a reformer Cleveland had such prestige that the like-minded wing of the Republican Party, called "Mugwumps", largely bolted the GOP presidential ticket and swung to his support in the 1884 election
• As his second administration began, disaster hit the nation when the Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depression, which Cleveland was unable to reverse
• It ruined his Democratic Party, opening the way for a Republican landslide in 1894 and for the agrarian and silverite seizure of the Democratic Party in 1896
• The result was a political realignment that ended the Third Party System and launched the Fourth Party System and the Progressive Era