{"id":251,"date":"1984-03-18T18:07:56","date_gmt":"1984-03-19T01:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=251"},"modified":"2015-05-22T08:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:21:56","slug":"cleveland-only-split-presiclenl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland, Only ‘Split’ President"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>Grover Cleveland, who was born 147 years ago on March 18, holds two unique distinctions among American presidents:<\/p>\n

He was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885-89 and 1893-97) and the only president married in the White\u00a0House.<\/p>\n

Cleveland, previously mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York, was elected the 22nd president in 1884 – a century ago – over Republican James G. Blaine. He was the first Democrat to win the presidency since James\u00a0Buchanan just before the Civil War.<\/p>\n

Still a bachelor at 48, the 250-pound Cleveland married beautiful Frances Folsom, 22, on June 2, 1886. He had known her since she was a baby.<\/p>\n

He was renominated in 1888 and polled 90,000 more votes than the Republican candidate, Benjamin Harrison. But Harrison won with 223 electoral votes to Cleveland’s 168 and became the 23rd president.<\/p>\n

It is said that the young Mrs. Cleveland, upon taking leave of a White House servant, stated: ”l want to find everything just as it is now when we come back again.”<\/p>\n

True to his wife’s forecast, Cleveland won the Democratic nomination again in 1892 and defeated Harrison in November.<\/p>\n

Afterward. confusion developed over listing the number of presidents. Was Cleveland now\u00a0the 24th chief executive or still the 22nd? Or both?<\/p>\n

In 1950, editors of the Congressional Directory decided to count Cleveland as the 24th president\u00a0in his second term. William McKinley thereby became the 25th president, and so on.<\/p>\n

The tradition continues today and Ronald Reagan is officially listed as the 40th president, although only 38 men have held the office, explained by Cleveland’s double listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grover Cleveland, who was born 147 years ago on March 18, holds two unique distinctions among American presidents: He was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885-89 and 1893-97) and the only president married in the White\u00a0House. Cleveland, previously mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York, was elected the 22nd president in… Continue reading Cleveland, Only ‘Split’ President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,11,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}