The Non-Consecutive Two-Termer



On this very day in nineteen hundred and eight

A history-making President of the United States

Died, in Princeton, New Jersey, at seventy-one

After a remarkable life, characterized by some



As the most honest man there had ever been

Who ever held political office since the scene ...

Was set by the founding fathers writing with quills

Establishing a nation which would be free of all ills



Grover Cleveland was so popular in eighty-eight

His re-election should have been a simple fate

But Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote

So Grover sat on the sidelines feeling his oats 

  

Then was asked to run again in eighteen ninety-two

Which he did, returning once again to make good 

Thus, becoming the only American president ever

To hold office in non-consecutive terms ... clever!!!



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

9:20pm Thursday, June 24th, 1999



Grover Cleveland was the 22nd AND 24th President

His credo - "A public office is a public trust" ...



Today's Birthdays:



George Pataki (Governor of New York) 54



Also:



Al Molinaro's 80th (The Odd Couple, Car 54)

Jack Carter's 76th (comedian, actor)

Claude Chabrol's 69th (movie director)

Mick Fleetwood's 57th (Fleetwood Mac)

Michele Lee's 57th (actress)

Georg Stanford Brown's 56th 

(former AMDA classmate)

Arthur Brown's 55th (singer)

Colin Blunstone's 54th (Zombies)

Peter Weller's 52nd (actor)

John Illsley's 50th (Dire Straits)

Nancy Allen's 49th (actress)

Derrick Simpson's 49th (Black Uhuru)

Astro's 42nd (UB 40)

Andy McCluskey's 40th (singer-musician)

Curt Smith's 38th (formerly Tears for Fears)

Sherry Stringfield's 32nd (actress)  

Glenn Medeiros' 29th (singer)