Hi everybody, today my mommy is going to talk about Grover Cleveland.

Thank you, Noah, for introducing Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.

Yeah, you heard me right.

Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th president of the united states that's because he won the election of

eighteen eighty four lost four years later then made a comeback in eighteen ninety two to defeat benjamin harrison

the same opponent that beat him four years earlier.

What makes Grover Cleveland more awesome is that he is the only president born in the state of New Jersey,

the very same state that we're recording this podcast from.

Grover Cleveland and his family were living in New York when his father Richard passed away in

1853. Grover was only 16 at the time. He decided not to go to college, but instead to work to help

support his family. He became a teacher at a school for the blind in New York

while he studied law. He passed the bar exam in 1859 and opened up a successful law practice

in Buffalo, New York. He also started becoming more active in politics, aligning himself with the Democrats.

When the Civil War started, Grover Cleveland was drafted to fight for the union, but hired

another man to replace him for $300 so he could support his family. This was totally legal at the

time. Political opponents would use this fact against him later

to imply that Grover Cleveland was a coward and lacked patriotism. He gained quite the reputation as an

outstanding lawyer in Buffalo and was able to gain enough support to become the mayor of Buffalo.

He then became governor of New York.

At the time, New York had the largest number of electoral votes with 36.

So Grover Cleveland became the Democratic Party favorite in the election of 1884.

He won the election by 37 electoral votes, but it was even closer than that.

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