Grover Cleveland was the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States.  President Cleveland was named Stephen Grover Cleveland, but when he was a young boy, he stopped using Stephen and became known only as Grover Cleveland.

Important events during President Cleveland's administration were:

• Geronimo, the Apache chief, went on the warpath in New Mexico and Arizona on May 17, 1885.

• The Naval War College opened in Newport, Rhode Island on September 3, 1885.

• The Presidential Succession Act was approved by Congress on January 19, 1886.

• The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

• A blizzard covered the East Coast in snow on March 11, 1888 and killed 400 people.

• Charles and Frank Duryea built the first gasoline-powered automobile in America and tested it on September 20, 1893.

• Workers went on strike against Pullman on May 11, 1894 and halted railroad traffic until August 2, when government troops arrested the union leaders and the workers returned to work.

• Hawaii became a republic on July 4, 1894.

• The Cuban revolt began on February 24, 1895.

• Income tax was declared unconstitutional on May 20, 1895.

• Utah was admitted as the 45th state on January 4, 1896.

Grover Cleveland was:

• the first President born in New Jersey.

• the only President to lose a reelection and then get elected.  He served two terms, but they weren't back to back.

• the second President to be married while in office and he was married in the White House.

• the ninth President who lived in a different state than where he was born.

• the first President elected after the Civil War who did not fight in it.

• the first Democratic President to be elected after the Civil War.