Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884,1888,and 1892—and was one of two Democrats to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.
The 1892 United States presidential election was the 27th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 8,1892. In a rematch of the closely contested 1888 presidential election,former Democratic President Grover Cleveland defeated incumbent Republican President Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland's victory made him the first and,to date,the only person in American history to be elected to a non-consecutive second presidential term. It was also the first time incumbents were defeated in consecutive elections—the second being Jimmy Carter's defeat of Gerald Ford in 1976,followed by Carter's subsequent loss to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
The 1896 United States presidential election was the 28th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 3,1896. Former Governor William McKinley,the Republican candidate,defeated former Representative William Jennings Bryan,the Democratic candidate. The 1896 campaign,which took place during an economic depression known as the Panic of 1893,was a political realignment that ended the old Third Party System and began the Fourth Party System.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson was an American politician who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897. He had served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his appointment as assistant postmaster general of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885–1889),he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress,but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland's running mate in 1892,and he was elected vice president of the United States.
William Lyne Wilson was an American politician and lawyer from West Virginia. A Bourbon Democrat,Wilson was elected to the United States Congress in 1882 and served six terms of office,ending in 1895.
Charles Erskine Scott Wood or C.E.S. Wood was an American author,civil liberties advocate,artist,soldier,attorney,and Georgist. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller,Heavenly Discourse.
Roger Quarles Mills was an American lawyer and politician. During the American Civil War,he served as an officer in the Confederate States Army. Later,he served in the US Congress,first as a representative and later as a senator.
John McAuley Palmer was an Illinois resident,an American Civil War general who fought for the Union,the 15th governor of Illinois,and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election on a platform to defend the gold standard,free trade,and limited government.
Edward Atkinson was an economist,inventor,and a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League.
John White Stevenson was the 25th governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both houses of the U.S. Congress. The son of former Speaker of the House and U.S. diplomat Andrew Stevenson,John Stevenson graduated from the University of Virginia in 1832 and studied law under his cousin,future Congressman Willoughby Newton. After briefly practicing law in Mississippi,he relocated to Covington,Kentucky,and was elected county attorney. After serving in the Kentucky legislature,he was chosen as a delegate to the state's third constitutional convention in 1849 and was one of three commissioners charged with revising its code of laws,a task finished in 1854. A Democrat,he was elected to two consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he supported several proposed compromises to avert the Civil War and blamed the Radical Republicans for their failure.
The 1896 Democratic National Convention,held at the Chicago Coliseum from July 7 to July 11,was the scene of William Jennings Bryan's nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate for the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
Bourbon Democrat was a term used in the United States in the later 19th century (1872–1904) to refer to members of the Democratic Party who were ideologically aligned with fiscal conservatism or classical liberalism,especially those who supported presidential candidates Charles O'Conor in 1872,Samuel J. Tilden in 1876,President Grover Cleveland in 1884,1888,and 1892 and Alton B. Parker in 1904.
The National Democratic Party,also known as Gold Democrats,was a short-lived political party of Bourbon Democrats who opposed the regular party nominee William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential election. The party was then a "liberal" party in the context of the times,which is more of a fiscal-conservative or classical-liberal in the political context of the United States today.
The 1892 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago,Illinois,June 21–June 23,and nominated former President Grover Cleveland,who had been the party's standard-bearer in 1884 and 1888. This marked the last time a former president was renominated by a major party. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois was nominated for vice president. The ticket was victorious in the general election,defeating the Republican nominees,President Benjamin Harrison and his running mate,Whitelaw Reid.
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge was a Democratic alderman,congressman,diplomat,businessman and veteran of the Confederate Army and Navy. He was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family,the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate General John C. Breckinridge and the great-grandson of U.S. Senator and Attorney General of the United States John Breckinridge.
Milton Jameson Durham was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and served as First Comptroller of the Treasury in the administration of President Grover Cleveland. An alumnus of DePauw University and the University of Louisville School of Law,Durham held no political office prior to his appointment as a circuit court judge by Governor Beriah Magoffin in 1861. He was elected to represent Kentucky's Eighth District in Congress in 1872. He served three terms and was a member of several finance-related committees. He was narrowly defeated for renomination in 1878 by Philip B. Thompson,Jr. at the district's Democratic nominating convention.
William Evans Arthur was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
The 1894 United States elections was held on November 6,and elected the members of the 54th United States Congress. These were mid-term elections during Democratic President Grover Cleveland's second term. The Republican landslide of 1894 marked a realigning election In American politics as the nation moved from the Third Party System that had focused on issues of civil war and reconstruction,and entered the Fourth Party System,known as the Progressive Era,which focused on middle class reforms.
Grover Cleveland was the president of the United States first from March 4,1885,to March 4,1889,and then from March 4,1893,to March 4,1897. The first Democrat elected after the Civil War,Cleveland is the only US president to leave office after one term and later return for a second term. His presidencies were the nation's 22nd and 24th. Cleveland defeated James G. Blaine of Maine in 1884,lost to Benjamin Harrison of Indiana in 1888,and then defeated President Harrison in 1892.
Mary Jane Goodson Carlisle was a social leader from Kentucky. As the wife of politician John G. Carlisle,who served as speaker of the House,secretary of the Treasury,and as U.S. senator from Kentucky,Mary Jane Carlisle was prominent in Washington,D.C. social circles for many years. She was the lead author of Mrs. John G. Carlisle's Kentucky Cook Book, published in 1893. She died in 1905.
