University of Virginia Miller Center. Breadcrumb U. March 4, Grover Cleveland inaugurated. November 25, Vice President Thomas Hendrick dies. Vice President Thomas Hendricks dies. January 19, Cleveland Signs Presidential Succession Act. April 22, Cleveland addresses Congress. May 8, Cleveland vetoes military pensions. May 11, Accepting the Statue of Liberty. May 25, Cleveland announces his engagement. June 2, Cleveland and Francis Folsom marry. October 28, Statue of Liberty dedicated.
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated. December 8, American Federation of Labor. February 4, Interstate Commerce Commission. February 8, Cleveland Signs Dawes Act.
February 11, Cleveland vetoes Dependent Pension Bill. February 16, Cleveland vetoes Texas Seed Bill. Tenure of Office Act of September 20, Cleveland tours South and Southwest. Cleveland embarks on a tour that takes him to states in the southern and western United States. December 6, January 16, The Civil Service Commission amends rules. April 30, June 13, Department of Labor established.
The Department of Labor is established. June 25, RNC nominates Benjamin Harrison. September 8, DNC nominates Cleveland. October 8, Cleveland Signs Chinese Exclusion Act. November 6, Cleveland loses to Harrison. Department of Agriculture created. Cleveland signs a bill creating the Department of Agriculture. February 22, Benjamin Harrison inaugurated.
Cleveland is inaugurated, becoming the only President to serve two nonconsecutive terms. March 9, Cleveland withdraws Hawaiian annexation treaty. April 23, Cleveland defends gold standard. Cleveland vows to defend the gold standard. May 4, June 18, A malignant growth is detected on the roof of Cleveland's mouth. June 30, July 1, Cleveland's secret opperation. Debating silver and tariffs.
Cleveland's second child born. Esther Cleveland, Grover's second child, is born. Her birth is the first in the White House. November 1, Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
January 17, February 1, The House passes a tariff revisions bill. March 25, April 29, May 1, Pullman railway strikes. July 4, Republic of Hawaii recognized. August 28, Wilson-Gorman Tariff Bill. December 1, Venezuela-Britain boundary dispute. Restoring gold reserves. February 24, It was a win by just 1, votes in his adopted home state of New York that swung the election. Cleveland actually won his second election in the popular vote. Big spending by the Republicans swing the electoral vote in New York state away from Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison took the Electoral College vote, and the presidency.
A third party helped Cleveland get his second term. The Populist Party took 8 percent of the popular vote, and Cleveland easily defeated Harrison in the rematch, by a margin in the Electoral College. Cleveland gets mixed grades as a President. Toggle navigation. Here is a look at the very interesting and unique political career of the only double President.
Sign up for our email newsletter. Against inflation, Grover Cleveland would not allow the government to intervene and defended the gold standard as the basis for the national currency. Cleveland accomplished tariff reform, repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of which placed silver as the backing of currency and advocated for free trade. Congress prevented Cleveland from supporting revolutionaries in Cuba, and the conflict continued, negatively affecting American economic interests and business relations.
Cleveland signed the disastrous Dawes Act of , which empowered the president to allot land within the reservations to individual Native Americans, with all surplus land reverting to the public domain.
The policy essentially legalized the stealing of land from Native Americans.
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