Ainsley Thunander, a member of Trinity Irish Dancers, claps during a performance ahead of St. Patrick’s Day at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in Irving Park, Friday, March 14, 2025.

In both cases, their fans, as Klinghard writes of Cleveland, “loved him most for the enemies he has made.” But for Cleveland, the party unity he forged proved to be temporary.

Perhaps the most important difference between the two is that Grover Cleveland, whatever his faults, was quite generally admired for his honesty and integrity. Donald Trump, not so much.

Donald Trump is now the second president to return to the White House after losing a bid for reelection. The first was Grover Cleveland, who ran a successful campaign in 1884 and 1892. I spoke ...

George Cleveland never knew his grandfather, who died in 1908. But with Donald Trump's return, Grover Cleveland is a big deal again.

By 1896, Cleveland, 59, found himself a pariah in the party he once led. If Trump’s second term is a disaster right out of the gate, his party may take a beating in the 2026 midterms.

Grover Cleveland (the nation’s 22 nd and 24 th president) was a fiscally conservative Democrat. But if he were alive today, “he’d probably be a libertarian,” George Cleveland said.

As a strict constitutionalist, Cleveland referred the entire matter to Congress for resolution. This caused the matter to languish without resolution until 1897, when Cleveland's second term ended.

OPINION What the ghost of Grover Cleveland would tell Trump Eight pieces of advice for the incoming president. By David Shribman Globe Correspondent,Updated January 3, 2025, 3:00 a.m.

The Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association has been trying to build a proper library and museum for decades. New Jersey, which owns the historic site, has agreed to foot most of the bill ...

President Grover Cleveland. Library of Congress / Corbis/VCG via Getty Images A narrow victory in the popular vote gave him enough votes in the Electoral College to be named president.