Donald Trump is only the second U.S. president elected to two non-consecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland, who bore many similarities to the president-elect during his 19th-century political career,
A conversation with Russell Berman about the last president to lose, then win, a reelection bid
They both won a second term after losing the previous election. But Cleveland’s second administration was such a disaster it put his party out of power for decades.
George Cleveland never knew his grandfather, who died in 1908. But with Donald Trump's return, Grover Cleveland is a big deal again.
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His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent presidency.
Donald Trump’s inauguration this week to a non-consecutive second term had the beneficial effect of reminding us of Grover Cleveland, the only other president to have achieved this dubious honor.
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Politics is replete with comebacks – Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill and Vladimir Lenin make the cut. And so does President Donald Trump.
Like Donald Trump, former President Grover Cleveland secured the White House for a second time after losing a previous election, presidential historian Alexis Coe notes in a Sunday, MSNBC op-ed. However,
When Donald Trump is sworn in for a second time on Jan. 20, he will become just the second president to serve non-consecutive terms.
Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term in 2025, eight years after his first inauguration in 2017. His family's roles have changed significantly.