Grover Cleveland 1892 presidential campaign

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Grover Cleveland for President
U.S. House of Representative from Illinois
(1875–1877, 1879–1881)
AffiliationDemocratic Party
StatusWon general election
This article is part of
a series about
Grover Cleveland
28th Governor of New York
22nd & 24th President of the United States
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Post-presidency

Grover Cleveland's signature

Seal of the President of the United States

After

Democrats won huge victories at the ballot box.[1] In addition, Cleveland disliked what he perceived to be the frequent blunders of the Harrison administration.[2] By the time 1891 ended, Grover Cleveland decided to re-enter American political life and run again for U.S. president in the 1892 U.S. presidential election.[1]

Democratic nomination

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NY Governor David Hill was a competitor of Cleveland's for the 1892 Democratic nomination

The main reasons for Cleveland's return into politics were his desire to prevent

New York Democratic Party chairman Edward Murphy to strengthen Governor Hill's chances for the 1892 Democratic nomination by giving him all of New York's delegates backfired and ended up helping Cleveland (since most of the delegates from the other states ended up supporting him afterwards).[1] When the 1892 Democratic National Convention convened on June 21, 1892, in Chicago, Cleveland was narrowly able to win the Democratic party nomination for U.S. president on the first ballot.[1] Specifically, on the first ballot of the convention, Cleveland gained 617 1/3 votes, just ten more votes than the necessary two-thirds majority.[6][self-published source?
]

General election

President Harrison wastes the government surplus in this Puck cartoon.
Congressman William McKinley's tariff
bill was a large issue in 1892

Not counting the anomalous 1912 election, the 1892 U.S. presidential election was the first and only U.S. presidential election where both an incumbent U.S. president and an ex-U.S. President both ran as the

Electoral College vote, winning all of the states that he won in 1884 in addition to Illinois, Wisconsin, and California.[5][7] Due to winning in 1892, Grover Cleveland became the first (and to this date only) ex-U.S. President to be elected U.S. president again.[5][7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "1892 Overview". Elections.harpweek.com. p. 2. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
  2. ^ Knoles, George Harmon (April 24, 1920). The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1892. Stanford University Press. Retrieved April 28, 2013 – via Google Books.
  3. ISBN 9781429998000
    . Retrieved April 28, 2013 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Grover Cleveland: 22nd and 24th President". WGBH American Experience. PBS. June 24, 1908. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Grover Cleveland | The White House". Whitehouse.gov. April 18, 2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  6. ISBN 9780595443048
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  7. ^ a b c d e f g h "1892 Overview". Elections.harpweek.com. p. 4. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
  8. ISBN 9780226398259
    . Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  9. ^ a b "1892 Overview". Elections.harpweek.com. p. 3. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  10. ISBN 9780415921398
    . Retrieved April 28, 2013.
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