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Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
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1886
6.2.1886
U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
10.28.1886
In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1889
2.22.1889
President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1893
6.13.1893
Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1894
7.20.1894
The troops sent by Grover Cleveland to Chicago to end the Pullman Strike are recalled.