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Grover Cleveland: A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to…

On the recordJuly 5, 1888
A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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