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title: "Who was the only president to serve two separate terms in office?"  
description: "Who was the only president to serve two separate terms in office?"  
author: "Aarohi Misra"  
published: 2018-02-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34817/who-was-the-only-president-to-serve-two-separate-terms-in-office  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["united states of america(usa)"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Who was the only president to serve two separate terms in office?

Who was the only [president to serve two](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32951/who-was-the-only-president-to-serve-two-separate-terms-in-office) separate [terms](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96621/explain-the-microsoft-access-database-in-simple-terms) in [office](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82115/the-advantages-of-purchasing-office-stationery-online)?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Stuti Gupta

> **Grover Cleveland, our 22nd and 24th President, was the first Democrat-appointed after the Civil War in 1885, and he was the only President to vacate the White House and rejoin 4 years later for a subsequent time (1885-1889 and 1893-1897).**

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**[Grover Cleveland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland)** was an **American lawyer and politician** serving as President of the United States for two terms, from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president to have served two non-consecutive sessions in the White House. He was elected **president three times**, in 1884, 1888, and 1892, and was one of just two Democrats to accomplish so during the Republican [presidential](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51260/why-was-the-presidential-election-of-2008-considered-historic) dominance that lasted from 1861 to 1933. \
Cleveland was praised for his **sincerity, self-reliance, morality, and devotion** to classical liberalism's ideas. He attacked **injustice, favoritism, and bossism** in [politics](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94000/who-was-veer-savarkar-what-was-his-role-in-indian-politics-before-the-independence-of-india). Cleveland's reputation as a reformist was such that in the 1884 campaign, the like-minded element of the Republican Party, known as 'Mugwumps,' largely left the GOP democratic nominee and flipped to his favor. As his 2nd term began, the [nation](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94231/when-was-the-national-security-act-passed) was struck by calamity when the Panic of 1893 triggered a devastating [national](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94183/what-is-the-national-sports-of-china) downturn. It decimated his Democratic Party, paving the stage for a Republican victory in 1894 and the agricultural and Silverite takeover of the party in 1896. The outcome was a constitutional crisis that marked the end of the Third Party System and the beginning of the Progressive Era.


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