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Early Career
Stephen Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, on March 18, He was the fifth of nine children of Richard Falley Cleveland (), a Presbyterian minister, and Anne Neal Cleveland ().
In , the family moved to upstate New York, where Cleveland’s father served several congregations before his death in
Did you know? Grover Cleveland vetoed twice as many congressional bills as all 21 of the presidents who preceded him combined— vetoes in his first term.
Cleveland left school following his father’s death and started working in order to help support his family.
Unable to afford a college education, he worked as a teacher in a school for the blind in New York City and then as a clerk in a law firm in Buffalo, New York. After clerking for several years, Cleveland passed the state bar examination in He started his own law firm in Cleveland did not fight in the American Civil War (); when the Conscription Act was passed in , he paid a Polish immigrant to serve in