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Birthday : March 18, 1837
Birth Place: Caldwell , New Jersey

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- Fifth out of nine children born to Ann Neal and Richard Falley Cleveland, a Presbyterian minister.
- Moved several times around central New York State for his father's post.
- When his father died, Grover was only sixteen years old. He had to give up his education to go to work to help provide for his family.
- Cleveland worked with his older brother at the New York institute for Special Education, then worked as a clerk and a part-time law student while in Buffalo.
- The knowledge he gained through these experiences helped him pass the bar exam in 1858 without any structured formal study.

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Wife: Frances Folsom Cleveland (Becoming the First Lady at age 21)
Remaining the youngest
Children: Ruth, Esther, Marion, Richard, Frances (5)
In his first term as president, 1885-89, Cleveland was uncomfortable in the White House, especially as a bachelor. He married his ward, the daughter of his deceased Buffalo law partner, making Frances Folsom. The couple had a 27-year age difference. Children began arriving between his two terms, and three were born in the White house.

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-Before being elected

He worked in a law firm for a few years before quitting his job to start his own practice in 1862. In January 1863, he was appointed assistant district attorney of Erie County. He became a popular lawyer known for his hard work and determination.

He eventually entered politics and aligned himself with the Democratic Party. He successfully ran for Mayor of Buffalo in 1881 and assumed office on January 2, 1882. In this position he worked hard to fight government corruption in order to safeguard public funds.

His success as the mayor made the New York Democratic party officials consider Cleveland as a possible nominee for governor. He easily won the elections and was made the Governor of New York in January 1883. He was opposed to unnecessary government spending and vetoed eight bills sent by the legislature in his first two months in office.

In 1884 the Democrats were seeking a presidential candidate who would contrast sharply with the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Blaine was notorious for his dishonesty and lack of principles. Grover Cleveland, with his untarnished reputation as an honest person with strong moral values came across as the perfect Democratic nominee. Cleveland narrowly won the presidential elections.

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Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–89 and 1893–97).

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-The period of reconstruction, 1863-1877, was the attempt of a war torn nation to heal itself after the end of the Civil War.

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Thomas A. Hendricks
1885-1893
Adlai Stevenson
1889-1893

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-political corruption who fiercely guarded the integrity of the offices in which he served.
- Unemployment; By 1894, nearly 18 percent of the nation's workers were unemployed. One-third of the wage earners in manufacturing and 25 percent of urban workers stood idle and hungry. Confidence in the economy was low, as one out of ten banks had shut their doors to depositors. Railroad construction had fallen by 50 percent, and the market for steel rails fell by one-third, forcing dozens of steel companies into bankruptcy. Charities and relief societies were unable to cope with the overwhelming demand for aid.

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Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental Liar from the State of Maine - Grover Cleveland

Refers to Blaine's involvement in unethical business deals with the railroad industry and his behavior after they were exposed.

Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa, Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha - James Blaine

Refers to the out of wedlock child Cleveland allegedly had fathered.

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Democratic candidate Cleveland had been nominated because of his flawless reputation – until a sleazy Buffalo newspaper printed a story that he had fathered an illegitimate child a decade earlier. Other newspapers got wind of the story and created a scandal of it. Pastors and priests all over the country decried the liaison from the pulpits. Needless to say, everyone expected Cleveland to vociferously deny such a monstrous charge. He did not.

He told his campaign managers to “tell the truth” – a mantra that he would always follow. And the truth was this: some years earlier, he had been acquainted with a widowed seamstress named Maria Halpin. Casual with her favors, Mrs. Halpin was also acquainted with several of Cleveland’s friends. When there was to be a child, Grover Cleveland volunteered to accept responsibility. While he was never sure of his paternity, he was the only bachelor amongst Maria’s intimates and did not wish to have his married friends embarrassed. He was also in a position to afford financial assistance – and even tried to set Mrs. Halpin up in a dressmaking business. Despite Cleveland’s monetary assistance, she proved to be an unfit mother, and when the boy was still small, Cleveland had him placed in suitable foster care. Some say he grew up to be a professional man; some say he died when he was a child. Nothing has ever been ascertained fully.

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In 1884, after a new interest in the personal lives of politicians, it was believed that Grover Cleveland may have fathered a child out of wedlock.

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1.Cleveland was a big guy. He wasn’t called Big Steve, as one of his political nicknames, for nothing. At 250 pounds, he was the second-heaviest President after William Howard Taft. Fitness Magazine named him as the least-healthiest President, because of his penchant for beer drinking and cigar smoking.
2.Cleveland’s real first name was Stephen, not Grover