A report on Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States) and Grover Cleveland

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Caldwell Presbyterian parsonage, birthplace of Grover Cleveland in Caldwell, New Jersey

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

An early, undated photograph of Grover Cleveland

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

Statue of Grover Cleveland outside City Hall in Buffalo, New York

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

Gubernatorial portrait of Grover Cleveland

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

An anti-Blaine cartoon presents him as the "tattooed man", with many indelible scandals.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

An anti-Cleveland cartoon highlights the Halpin scandal.

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Cleveland portrayed as a tariff reformer

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Henry L. Dawes wrote the Dawes Act, which Cleveland signed into law.

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

Cleveland's first Cabinet.
Front row, left to right: Thomas F. Bayard, Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Lucius Q. C. Lamar
Back row, left to right: William F. Vilas, William C. Whitney, William C. Endicott, Augustus H. Garland

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Poster President Cleveland and Vice-President of the United States, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio (1888).

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

Cleveland's humiliation by Gorman and the sugar trust

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

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John T. Morgan, Senator from Alabama, opposed Cleveland on Free Silver, the tariff, and the Hawaii treaty, saying of Cleveland that "I hate the ground that man walks on."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

His Little Hawaiian Game Checkmated, 1894

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Official portrait of President Cleveland by Eastman Johnson, c. 1891

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

Cleveland's last Cabinet.
Front row, left to right: Daniel S. Lamont, Richard Olney, Cleveland, John G. Carlisle, Judson Harmon
Back row, left to right: David R. Francis, William Lyne Wilson, Hilary A. Herbert, Julius S. Morton

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Cleveland in 1903 at age 66 by Frederick Gutekunst

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Outgoing President Grover Cleveland, at right, stands nearby as William McKinley is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Melville Fuller.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

$1000 Gold Certificate (1934) depicting Grover Cleveland

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

From his earliest involvement in politics, Cleveland aligned with the Democratic Party.

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The party was dominated by pro-business Bourbon Democrats led by Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, who represented mercantile, banking, and railroad interests; opposed imperialism and overseas expansion; fought for the gold standard; opposed bimetallism; and crusaded against corruption, high taxes and tariffs.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Blaine once again ran for the presidency, winning the nomination but losing to Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1884, the first Democrat to be elected president since Buchanan.

- Republican Party (United States)

Although lacking irrefutable evidence that Cleveland was the father, the illegitimate child became a campaign issue for the GOP in Cleveland's first presidential campaign, where they smeared him by claiming that he was "immoral" and for allegedly acting cruelly by not raising the child himself.

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1884 United States presidential election

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The 25th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1884.

Campaign poster attacking Cleveland's morals

This campaign poster purports to show the area of land grants to railroads

Map of presidential election results by county

Dance card cover depicting the candidates

<center>Benjamin F. Butler from Massachusetts</center>

<center>Allen G. Thurman from Ohio</center>

<center>James B. Weaver from Iowa (Declined to be nominated) </center>

<center>Party Chairman Jesse Harper from Illinois</center>

<center>Samuel C. Pomeroy from Kansas (Withdrew Aug 27, 1884) (Endorsed John St. John) </center>

<center>John St. John from Kansas</center>

<center>Lawyer and Suffragette Belva Ann Lockwood from Washington, D.C.</center>

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Map of Democratic presidential election results by county

Map of Republican presidential election results by county

Map of "other" presidential election results by county

It saw the first Democrat elected President of the United States since James Buchanan in 1856, and the first Democratic president to hold office since Andrew Johnson, who assumed the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated Republican James G. Blaine of Maine.