We're now on the 22nd day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Grover Cleveland (8/20/1833 - 3/13/1901), who served as president from 1889 to 1892. He is William Henry Harrison's grandson and fought in the Civil War under General Grant, thereafter serving as a senator from Indiana. Notable actions or events during his presidency include the Judiciary Act of 1891, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the McKinley Tariff, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, the Dependent and Disability Pension Act, the Jim Crow Laws in the south, the General Revision Act, Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre, the Land Rush of 1889, the 1891 Immigration Act, the Modernization of the Navy, the Baltimore Crisis with Chile, the Annexation of Hawaii, and the First International Conference of American States. He was also the first president to have his voice recorded. Listen to it here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/95/Benjamin_Harrison_speech.ogg/Benjamin_Harrison_speech.ogg.mp3What do you think of the man with electrophobia?
>>18524946Harrison's administration was generally pretty disastrous since its actions directly caused the 1893 panic. That said some good came out of it such as the first attempts at national conservation and Ellis Island was also started so there was some regulation on immigrants.
>>18524962Sherman Antitrust Act
