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Grover Cleveland: His disability from army service should be conceded and his death at some time and in some manner may well be presumed…

On the recordJuly 4, 1886
His disability from army service should be conceded and his death at some time and in some manner may well be presumed; but the fact that he died from any cause related to his disability or his service in the Army has no presumption and not a single particle of proof to rest upon.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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