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Grover Cleveland. Twenty-Fourth President, 1893-1897. Campaign: Grover Cleveland’s victory brought back a defeated president to the White House for a second term, an historic first that remains unique.
Grover Cleveland. It is a plain dictate of honesty and good government that public expenditures should be limited by public necessity, and that this should be measured by the rules of strict economy; Second Inaugural Address. Overview. Stephen Grover Cleveland fell into politics without really trying.
The First Democrat elected after the Civil War, Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later. One of nine children of a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland was born in New Jersey in 1837. He was raised in upstate New York.