Major Acts: Grover Cleveland repealed the Silver Purchase Act, which obligated the government to purchase a fixed amount of silver each month and diminished the Treasury’s supply of gold. Cleveland ...

Labor Day was officially established and signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 to recognize the contributions of American workers. Smithsonian Libraries houses many books dealing with ...

The first Democrat elected president since the Civil War, Grover Cleveland stood for probity, self-sufficiency and fiscal conservatism. He considered the presidency a check on abuses by Congress ...