Grover Cleveland : Important Dates/Accomplishments

  • Becomes 22nd President

    Grover Cleveland became the twenty-second President of the United States of America.
  • Geronimo surrenderes, ending Apache wars of New Mexico and Arizona.

  • Married Frances Folsom

  • The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States from France and was dedicated by President Cleveland

  • Cleveland renews the Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Cleveland loses Presidential re-election to Benjamin Harrison

  • Presidency ends

  • U.S. population was 61,800,000 when Cleveland's first term ended

  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed

  • Financial Panic

  • Inaugurated as the 24th President of the U.S. becoming the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

  • Becomes 24th President

  • 2nd term as president ends

  • U.S. population was 72,200,000 when Cleveland's second term ended

  • Grover dies of heart failure