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RECONSTRUCTION & THE GILDED AGETHE SYSTEM OF 1896THE NEW DEAL ORDERTHE LONG REALIGNMENTPOLARIZED ERA1868RRRRD1888RDRRR1908RDDRR1928RDDDD1948DRRDD1968RRDRR1988RDDRR2008DDRD2024R
Grover Cleveland

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Democrat · 1837–1908

Grover Cleveland

President of the United States · Governor of New York · Mayor of Buffalo, New York

Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War and the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms.

On the Ballot

3 presidential runs
1884Won48.9% of the vote · 219 EV · v. James G. Blaine

Strongest counties, 1884

Countytwo-party sharevotes
Haralson, GA100.0%530
Putnam, GA100.0%519
Wilkes, GA100.0%785
Jackson, LA100.0%658
Sabine, LA100.0%572

Weakest counties, 1884

Countytwo-party sharevotes
Burnett, WI4.3%635
St. Charles, LA7.8%990
Isanti, MN8.3%1,364
Beaufort, SC8.7%2,895
Chicot, AR9.5%1,294
1888Lost48.6% of the vote · 168 EV · v. Benjamin Harrison

Strongest counties, 1888

Countytwo-party sharevotes
Putnam, GA100.0%512
Wilkes, GA100.0%698
Jackson, LA100.0%520
Lincoln, LA100.0%883
Richland, LA100.0%1,098

Weakest counties, 1888

Countytwo-party sharevotes
St. Charles, LA7.8%1,353
Leslie, KY9.1%726
Scott, TN10.4%1,582
Chicot, AR11.5%1,832
Unicoi, TN11.6%730
1892Won46.0% of the vote · 277 EV · v. Benjamin Harrison

Strongest counties, 1892

Countytwo-party sharevotes
Colbert, AL100.0%3,470
Conecuh, AL100.0%2,504
Geneva, AL100.0%1,515
Jackson, AL100.0%4,682
Lauderdale, AL100.0%3,645

Weakest counties, 1892

Countytwo-party sharevotes
Arapahoe, CO0.0%23,551
Boulder, CO0.0%3,674
Chaffee, CO0.0%1,690
Conejos, CO0.0%1,447
Costilla, CO0.0%829