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Grover Cleveland: I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due…

On the recordJuly 5, 1886
I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due to his military service.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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