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Grover Cleveland: The violent termination of a career promising so much in aid of liberty and advancing civilization should be mourned as…

On the recordJune 24, 1894
The violent termination of a career promising so much in aid of liberty and advancing civilization should be mourned as an affliction to mankind.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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