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Grover Cleveland: I am sure that in no case except in an application for pension would an attempt be made in the circumstances here…

On the recordJuly 30, 1886
I am sure that in no case except in an application for pension would an attempt be made in the circumstances here developed to attribute death from apoplexy to a wound in the knee received nineteen years before the apoplectic attack.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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