GROVER CLEVELAND
(Stephen Grover Cleveland)
Grover Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child. This became a campaign issue in the presidential election of 1884:
Assuring one of his business associates alarmed at the landslide election victory of a Democrat, Grover Cleveland:
On May 26, 1887 President Grover Cleveland, himself a Union Army Civil War veteran, issued an Executive Order providing that the captured Confederate regimental flags held as trophies by the War Department be returned to the States of the regiments from which they were captured. Union veterans were outraged:. Within three weeks the president rescinded the order, caving in to pressure from the major veterans organization of the day, The Grand Army of the Republic. Many years later President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the flags returned to the former Confederate states.
Expressing his feeling regarding President Grover Cleveland who failed to deal with serious economic problems:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Some contemporaries had accused Cleveland of drinking too much but there has never been any evidence of this.
This was remarkable praise for a man of the opposite party who had himself served two Presidential terms.
He didn’t succeed until Mahan wrote his marvelous treatise.
This statement in the President’s Second Inaugural. Infuriated the politicians of the Southern States. Remember, at the time there was brutal discrimination throughout most of the South, and more important to the South than the fact if the discrimination was their perverse view that this was a right, proper and necessary state of affairs for the welfare of the people and was required by Christianity’s mandates as they read the Scripture. For the President to state so publicly that discrimination was contrary to the law, justice, good faith, citizenship and fairness was a major shock. Since the early days of reconstruction after the Civil war in the Grant Administration, no president had spoken so publicly and openly against the Southern status quo.
See {587318} and {34913} for the Ambassador�s worst statements. After this tragic affair, Ambassadors were never again given the amount of autonomy that John L. Stevens had. There was no way to repair the damage effectively and Hawaii remained a territory of the United States.
There were more silver mines than gold and the owners and others who wanted to increase the money supply had advocated using silver as well as gold to back the money supply. As silver was more plentiful, financiers felt that the American money had been diluted and other its value went down. Cleveland proposed that the legislation allowing so much silver be repealed. It was. Note the appeal to international opinion. At the time the United States was not one of the world’s superpowers and what the English and French thought about our money was extremely important and likely to persuade voters. A century later, American public opinion was not as influenced by that of other nations.
- Born: March 18, 1837
- Died: June 24, 1908
- Nationality: American
- Profession: President
Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (followed by Woodrow Wilson in 1912) to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.
