He was the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
Cleveland was the first executive movie star. In 1895, Alexander Black came to Washington and asked Cleveland to appear in "A Capital Courtship", his photoplay. He agreed to be filmed while signing a bill into law. "A Capitol Courtship" was a big hit on the Lyceum Circuit.
Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House and was the first to have a child born there.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
He acted as executioner while sheriff of Erie County, New York. He personally pulled the hanging trap on two convicted murderers.
He and the first lady would shake hands with as many as 8,000 callers at a New Year's Day reception. Crowds entered through the doors and the East Room windows!
Cleveland used his veto powers 584 times during his two terms. This is the highest total of any president except Franklin Roosevelt, who served three terms.
Grover Cleveland went sailing during July 1893 for what people thought was a fishing trip, but he was really having surgery for a strange growth in his mouth. The operation was kept so secret that nobody found out about it until 1917!
Cleveland answered the White House phone, personally.
"Death and Destruction" was the name that Grover Cleveland gave to his favorite hunting rifle.
Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place, for which he was ridiculed by his
political opponent, James G. Blaine. It was soon discovered, however, that Blaine had done the same thing himself!
He was named after the Reverend Stephen Grover, whom Cleveland's father has succeeded as minister in Caldwell, New Jersey.