Grover Cleveland Trivia Facts

1.  FIRST, what started it all:  Grover Cleveland was the only President to serve two non-consecutive Presidential terms, being elected in 1884 (as the 22nd President) and 1892 (as the 24th President).

2. It turns out that he actually won the popular vote in the middle election as well!!  (1888).  But he lost in the electoral college.  (This was one of only 4 times this has happened – the last being in 2000, as we remember!)  So – besides FDR – he must have also been the only other President to have won the popular vote in THREE elections.

3. In his final election (1892), Cleveland’s VP was Adlai Stevenson I, who was grandfather of Adlai Stevenson II, who ran for President in 1952 and ’56.

4. Adlai Stevenson I later ran as VP again with William Jennings Bryan in 1900, making him the only man to be nominated for Vice President with two different Presidential candidates.

OK, I confess that I sometimes think of ‘history’ the same way many of you think of ‘math’, but I found all this FASCINATING!!