More about Grover Cleveland

• He was supposed to serve in the military but purchased a substitute to serve for him during the Civil War.
• His wife, Frances Folsom, known for her beauty, was 21 at the time of their marriage; he was 49. Their baby was the first child born in the White House.
• As Sheriff of Erie County, it was his duty to execute two criminals: one for killling his mother, another for shooting a man over a card game. Both men were hung.
• "I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one."