The Election Of 1888: Grover Cleveland vs. Benjamin Harrison
Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition in the presidential election series, where I'll be going over the election of 1888 as incumbent president Grover Cleveland takes on Civil War Hero turned politician, Benjamin Harrison so with all that said...let's get into it. Grover's Presidency After narrowly winning the previous election in 1884, Grover Cleveland began to enact much of his policies which included vetoing a large number of bills, reducing government spending, supporting free trade, having a non-interventionist foreign policy and even appointed various politicians to jobs within his administration solely based on their merits thereby being the first president is quite some time to turn his back on the spoils system. Cleveland also found time during his presidency to get married as he found love with the 21-year-old, Francis Clara Folsom before the two tied the knot on June 2nd, 1886 making the now Mrs. Cleveland the youngest first lady in United States hi