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date: 18 March 2025

Cleveland, Grover 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
R. Hal WilliamsR. Hal Williams

(1837–1908), twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States.Born in Caldwell, New Jersey, Cleveland spent most of his early life in Buffalo, New York, where he practiced law and held minor offices. (He also fathered a child out of wedlock, an indiscretion that his political opponents would later use against him.) In ... ...

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