Date

Jun 26 2024

Event

Death

22nd and 24th U.S. President Grover Cleveland Death

The 22nd and 24th president, Grover Cleveland is the only POTUS to serve two nonconsecutive terms, as well as the first to be married in the White House.

• Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.
• Born: March 18, 1837, Caldwell, NJ
• Died: June 24, 1908, Princeton, NJ
• Spouse: Frances Cleveland (m. 1886–1908)
• Party: National Democratic Party
• Presidential terms: March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889, March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897
• Vice presidents: Thomas A. Hendricks (1893–1885), Adlai Stevenson I (1893–1889)
• Grover Cleveland was the first president to serve non-consecutive terms, and the first president to be married (to Frances Folsom) at the White House
• First president born in New Jersey.
• First president to get married at the White House.
• First president to have a child born in the White House.
• First president to serve non-consecutive terms.
• First president to win two terms without winning a majority of the vote (1884 & 1892).
• First president to win a plurality of the vote in three consecutive elections without ever winning a majority (1884, 1888, & 1892).
• First president to be filmed.
• First president to veto more than 100 bills, with over 500, including over 200 pocket vetos.
• First president to have had a secretary of agriculture.