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GROVER CLEVELAND

Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd president of the USA from 1885 to 1889 and the 24th president of the USA from 1893 to 1897. He was born in 1837 at Caldwell, New York and died in 1908. He studied law and in 1855 he became a clerk at a Buffalo law office and in 1859 was admitted to the bar. He joined the democratic party, along with his law associates and took an active role in the local organisation. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, he didn't enlist and when conscripted took advantage of the commutation provision of the law and hired a substitute, staying behind to support his mother and two teenage sisters. In 1870 he was elected sheriff of Erie County.
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