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Grover Cleveland

Political Anecdotes From Historical Newspapers

December 1, 2021 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

Frances Folsom Marries Grover Cleveland, 1886Trivia clue: She was arrested at the St. Louis fair grounds in 1887 for throwing a pancake at First Lady Frances Cleveland.

Correct response: Who is Annie Sax? – who seemingly had good aim, but made a poor choice of targets. [Read more…] about Political Anecdotes From Historical Newspapers

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Cultural History, Grover Cleveland, Political History, Warren County, Washington County

Grover Cleveland’s Albany Inauguration for Governor

March 10, 2021 by Maury Thompson 2 Comments

Newly elected Governor Grover Cleveland taking the oath of officeAlbany was a busy place on New Year’s Day 1883, the day of a collegial turnover of power from a Republican to a Democrat who had won election by an 11-percentage-point margin. [Read more…] about Grover Cleveland’s Albany Inauguration for Governor

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Albany, Grover Cleveland, Political History, politics

The 1884 Election Also Brought False GOP Claims of Voter Fraud

November 17, 2020 by Maury Thompson 1 Comment

Election 1884 Cincinnati Riot(1) Counting and verification of votes in the 1884 presidential election, as now, was controversial, with Republicans claiming fraud and inaccuracy.

“Republicans are diehard here. All their hope lies in finding a clerical error in the returns,” a Lake George correspondent wrote in a dispatch published November 11th in The Morning Star of Glens Falls. [Read more…] about The 1884 Election Also Brought False GOP Claims of Voter Fraud

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Grover Cleveland, Political History, politics

Albany Celebrated Grover Cleveland’s 1884 Nomination for President

October 14, 2020 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

Grover Cleveland courtesy Library of CongressAfter the 1884 Democratic National Convention closed at Chicago, the nation’s attention turned to Albany, where nominee-in-waiting Grover Cleveland was doing his best not to make news prematurely. [Read more…] about Albany Celebrated Grover Cleveland’s 1884 Nomination for President

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Albany, Grover Cleveland, Political History

Grover Cleveland’s Indiscretion, Oneida Co Connections

May 20, 2020 by Richard Williams 1 Comment

Grover Cleveland - Another Voice for Cleveland September 1884 Library of CongressPresident Grover Cleveland spent some years in Clinton, Oneida County, NY, as a boy, while his father Rev. Richard Cleveland and his family lived at 26 Utica Street (the house was marked by the Clinton Historical Society in 1968).

Rev. Cleveland had arrived there in 1850 to take a position as Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society. The job required a lot of traveling which eventually took its toll on Rev. Cleveland’s health. [Read more…] about Grover Cleveland’s Indiscretion, Oneida Co Connections

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Oneida County, Political History

John H. Moffitt’s North Country Political Biography

April 23, 2020 by Maury Thompson 4 Comments

John Henry Moffitt courtesy Cole Collection, Plattsburgh Public LibraryConstituents in New York’s 21st Congressional District, unlike U.S. Rep. Constantine B. Kilgore, D-Texas, didn’t get caught taking summer naps, joked The Plattsburgh Sentinel on April 5, 1889.

Kilgore, better known by the nickname “Buck,” had persistently blocked Republican John H. Moffitt, who represented New York’s North Country, from securing a $10,000 appropriation to construct a road through the military reservation in Plattsburgh. [Read more…] about John H. Moffitt’s North Country Political Biography

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Clinton County, Fort Ticonderoga, Grover Cleveland, Plattsburgh, Political History

Collections Mystery: The Emancipator Newspaper in 1888

December 22, 2019 by Ed O’Shaughnessy Leave a Comment

One of the handbills circulated during the 1888 electionIt has long been the conventional wisdom that the Irish in America trend Democratic in their voting tendencies. This was more true in the late 19th Century and in the 1880s, Republican Party election committees were hell-bent on mitigating that trend. [Read more…] about Collections Mystery: The Emancipator Newspaper in 1888

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Benjamin Harrison, Brooklyn, Grover Cleveland, Irish History, New York City, Political History, politics

Grover Cleveland and the Clinton Centennial in Utica

February 14, 2019 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

cleveland in uticaLocal historian Wade Lallier is set to discuss President Grover Cleveland’s connections to Central New York, sharing facets of Cleveland’s life up to his trip to Clinton, NY for the village’s centennial. The talk will take place on Saturday, February 16th at 1 pm, at the Oneida County History Center in Utica.

The nation’s 22nd and 24th President, Grover Cleveland, lived in Fayetteville, Clinton, and Holland Patent, New York before his presidency. [Read more…] about Grover Cleveland and the Clinton Centennial in Utica

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Grover Cleveland, Mohawk Valley, Oneida County History Center, Political History, Utica

A Cannon Explodes: 19th Century Electioneering In Otsego County

December 18, 2017 by Tyler Stump 1 Comment

Battle of Vera CruzOn the morning of August 28, 1888 residents of Dimmock Hollow (Ostego County) woke up knowing that it was going to be a memorable day. They couldn’t have known how right they were. [Read more…] about A Cannon Explodes: 19th Century Electioneering In Otsego County

Filed Under: History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Otsego County, Political History

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