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Grover Cleveland: His death resulted from his voluntary and perfectly proper personal indulgence, and can not be in the least attributed…

On the recordFebruary 24, 1889
His death resulted from his voluntary and perfectly proper personal indulgence, and can not be in the least attributed to military service.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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