Cleveland actually won his second election in the popular vote. Big spending by the Republicans swing the electoral vote in New York state away from Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison took the Electoral College vote, and the presidency. A third party helped Cleveland get his second term.
The Populist Party took 8 percent of the popular vote, and Cleveland easily defeated Harrison in the rematch, by a margin in the Electoral College. Cleveland gets mixed grades as a President. Toggle navigation. The subsequent run on government gold required that the government borrow from the New York financier J. Foreign Affairs Cleveland shunned foreign entanglements and imperial ambitions.
Revolutions in both Hawaii and Cuba seemed to require a response by the president but he chose not to acknowledge either, leaving those issues to his successors. Most significantly, when Venezuela requested American mediation of a border dispute with Great Britain, Cleveland sent warships to South America to compel the British to accept arbitration. This was seen as consistent with the Monroe doctrine. Presidential Politics Grover Cleveland ran for president three times, each time winning the popular plurality.
His opponent in , James Blaine, was tarred with financial impropriety and anti-Catholicism whereas Cleveland was forced to admit that he may have fathered a child out of wedlock. In , the electoral college favored Banjamin Harrison — Cleveland lost his home state of New York by a slim margin, possibly a manufacturing state's response to his hatred of tariffs.
Cleveland accomplished tariff reform, repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of which placed silver as the backing of currency and advocated for free trade. Congress prevented Cleveland from supporting revolutionaries in Cuba, and the conflict continued, negatively affecting American economic interests and business relations. Cleveland signed the disastrous Dawes Act of , which empowered the president to allot land within the reservations to individual Native Americans, with all surplus land reverting to the public domain.
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