About the first U.S. President with two, non-consecutive terms

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"... When taking the oath of office, Grover Cleveland may have confused it with the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. Like Calvin Coolidge, he felt it was “more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.” This was reflected in, among other things, Cleveland’s unprecedented use of the veto. In his two terms, Cleveland vetoed 584 times, a record number until broken by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had three-plus terms to exceed it.  ..."

A Unique Presidential Feat…Until the 2024 Election — The Coolidge Review

President Grover Cleveland

What do Presidents Coolidge (R) and Cleveland (D) have in common? A specific use of veto power

From the latest Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation newsletter:

"Cal and Grover: A Tradition of Restraint

One question probed at the Foundation’s recent Library of Congress conference was a basic one: what culture made the Republican Calvin Coolidge? Where did Coolidge get his model of restraint? One surprising answer may be: from a Democratic president, Grover Cleveland. Cleveland, a former governor of New York, served as president twice in nonconsecutive terms, once while Coolidge was in high school (1885 to 1889) and once as Coolidge was finishing college and embarking on his career as a lawyer (1893 to 1897). As Troy Senik’s new biography, A Man of Iron, shows, Cleveland dealt with many of the same challenges that would later confront President Coolidge—and demonstrated restraint could succeed both as policy and with the electorate.

Cleveland’s primary tool for restraining government expansion was the presidential veto. Cleveland vetoed 414 pieces of legislation, a record that makes Coolidge’s one-and-a-half term veto level—50—look downright moderate. Given Cleveland’s habit of saying “no,” it’s especially striking that the nation rewarded Cleveland with a second term in 1892. ..."