Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th President of the United States; the only President to serve non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897); was defeated for reelection in 1888 by Benjamin Harrison, against whom he ran again in 1892 and won a second term; was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination between 1860 and 1912, after the American Civil War; praised for his honesty, independence, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism; he opposed imperialism, taxes, corruption, patronage, subsidies and inflationary policies; (1837-1908).
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