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Grover Cleveland     Grover Cleveland , the twenty- warrant and twenty-fourth electric chair of theUnited States, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey on prove 18, 1837. He was thefirst Democratic president who served two terms that did non directly followeach other. He also was the first chairperson who was elected after the Civil War.     Grover Cleveland was born the son of a res in the public eye(predicate)a minister whose name wasRic big(a) Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughterof a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth tiddler in a family of fourbrothers and five sisters.     Grover Clevelands family let a hard life, having little money andmoving around alot. After Grover Clevelands father died, he had to helpsupport the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 aweek He was otiose to go to law school like he wanted to do, so he studied byhimself and became an attorney in l859. Grover Cleveland became interested inpolitics and held several small offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor ofBuffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment.He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputationfor honesty.     Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was thefirst President to get married in the White hall. Reporters pried into eachdetail of Grover Clevelands life which he called "colossal impertinence".Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the firstand only child of a President to ever be born in the White House.     In 1884, Grover Clevelands supporters suggested that he run forPresident of the United States. His motto was "a public office is a publictrust". He was elected as the twenty-second President from 1885 until 1889. Heserved for four years and then barely lost the ne xt election to BenjaminHarrison, even though he had the majority of the popular vote. In 1892, he waspersuaded to seek office again and he returned to Washington as the twenty-fourth President in 1893 for four more years.     This President, called "Uncle Jumbo" by his relatives, was a hard- establishing President. He liked to do much of the work himself instead of assigningtasks to other people. Mr. Cleveland often stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. goingover official business, and sometimes answered the White House Telephone himself.     Grover Cleveland worked hard at reducing taxes on products that cameinto the United States, he refused easy money to farmers so that they couldreduce their debt, and he refused bigger pensions to Veterans.