Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson Secretary of State: Walter Q. Gresham;
Richard Olney (from June 1895)
Secretary of the Treasury: John G. Carlisle
Secretary of War: Daniel S. Lamont Attorney General: Richard Olney; Judson Harmon (from June 1895)
Postmaster General: Wilson S. Bissell;
William L. Wilson (from April 1895) Secretary of the Navy: Hilary A. Herbert Secretary of the Interior: Hoke Smith; David R. Francis (from September 1896)
Secretary of Agriculture: Julius Sterling Morton
Supreme Court Appointments: Edward D.
White (1894); Rufus W. Peckham (1895) State Admitted: Utah (1896)
Father: Richard Falley Cleveland (1804-1853) Mother: Ann Neal Cleveland (1806-1882) Wife: Frances Folsom (1864-1947)
Marriage: June 2, 1886 Children: Ruth (1891-1904); Esther (1893-1980); Marion (1895-1977);
Richard Folsom (1897-1974); Francis Grover (1903-1995). Cleveland allegedly had an illegitimate son, Oscar (1874-?), with Maria Halpin.
Grover Cleveland is the only president to have been elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
During his first term, in 1886, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York Harbor.
He was so fat in middle age that family members called him “Uncle Jumbo” after P. T. Barnum’s famous elephant.
His wife, Frances Folsom, was 21 at the time of their marriage; he was 49. Their daughter Esther is the only president’s child ever to be born in the White House.
As president, he often worked past midnight and into the early morning hours.
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