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.

The first was Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president from 1885 to 1889, followed by a second stint in the White House as the 24th from 1893 to 1897.

For more than a century, President Grover Cleveland was in a league of his own as the only leader of the nation to serve non-consecutive terms as the 22nd and 24th president of the U.S.

Donald Trump this week did what only one other American, Grover Cleveland, has done by winning the presidency after earlier losing it from the White House.

The Grover Cleveland Presidential Library and Museum occupies a one-story building in Caldwell, New Jersey, behind the house where its namesake spent the first few years of his life.

If reelected, Trump would only be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s. Here's a look at how that happened — and who else has tried.

Former President Grover Cleveland and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP) Beginnings and 1884 campaign. Cleveland was born in 1837 in New Jersey, making him of military age during the Civil War.

More than a century ago, Grover Cleveland secured a second nonconsecutive term in the White House after a campaign plagued with scandal and allegations of a coverup. By Ali Watkins Declared the ...

Donald Trump is the second U.S. president in history to lose a reelection bid and then be elected again. Grover Cleveland was the first. The Democrat, whose full name was Stephen Grover Cleveland ...