Dates in Office: 1893-1897 (Second term)
Important Information:
- This was Cleveland's second time in office.
- His second term began with the Panic of 1893 which caused national depression.
- This panic ruined the Democratic Party and gave way to the Republican landslide in 1894 as well as the agrarian silverite seizure of the Democratic Party in 1896.
- There was then a political realignment that ended the Third Party System and began the Fourth Party System as well as the Progressive Era.
- President Cleveland interfered with the Pullman Strike of 1894.
- He was in support of the gold standard and opposed Free Silver.
- Cleveland seemed overwhelmed by the national depression and various strikes.