{"id":267,"date":"2024-11-14T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:50:51","slug":"biggest-loser-in-election-grover-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Biggest loser in election -Grover Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As he&#8217;s lost his unique place in American history as the only President to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. Thanks to EM for sending me this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860f0889b200d-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11108\" title=\"Grover cleveland\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This from the AP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/grover-cleveland-president-nonconsecutive-terms-7ea2c92c72911462ccb1bc2e7352fa23\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 On the list of U.S. presidents, several have been tapped by voters to serve for more than one term, with Donald Trump joining the group as the 45th president and now the 47th, too. But only one other American president did it the way Trump will \u2014 with a gap of four years between terms. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president after the 1884 election, and as the 24th president after the campaign of 1892.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cleveland was governor of New York when he was tapped as the Democratic Party\u2019s nominee for president in 1884. He was \u201cviewed as the epitome of responsibility and stability,\u201d said Daniel Klinghard, professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachussetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A narrow victory in the popular vote gave him enough votes in the Electoral College to be named president. Four years later, even though he once again had a slight lead in the popular vote, he lost the Electoral College count to Republican Benjamin Harrison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cleveland remained well-thought of by the public, though. He won both the popular and Electoral vote in 1892.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a point at which the modern notion of the of the national party really came together. Cleveland had a group of skilled political operatives, very wealthy folks, who saw themselves benefiting from free trade,\u201d Klinghard said. \u201cAnd they spent a lot of time sort of keeping Cleveland\u2019s name in front of the electorate, sort of very much as Trump\u2019s allies have done, sort of dismissing anybody else as a challenge \u2014 as a rival.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he&#8217;s lost his unique place in American history as the only President to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. Thanks to EM for sending me this article. This from the AP. NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 On the list of U.S. presidents, several have been tapped by voters to serve for more than one term, with Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11109,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}