Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer: an enemy of political machines who fought powerful party bosses, a moralist who vetoed bills he considered raids on the Treasury, and a defender of the Monroe Doctrine who resisted American imperialism. His career in office was plagued by scandalhe was persecuted for fathering a child out of wedlock, a charge to which he readily admittedand at the age of forty-nine he ...
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Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer: an enemy of political machines who fought powerful party bosses, a moralist who vetoed bills he considered raids on the Treasury, and a defender of the Monroe Doctrine who resisted American imperialism. His career in office was plagued by scandalhe was persecuted for fathering a child out of wedlock, a charge to which he readily admittedand at the age of forty-nine he married his twenty-one-year-old ward. After the nation's initial surprise, she became the most popular first lady of her day.
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