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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Deepti Hajela

Trump isn't first to be second: Grover Cleveland set precedent of non-consecutive presidential terms

Presidential Terms Grover Cleveland - (1892 AP)

On the list of U.S. presidents, several have been tapped by voters to serve for more than one term, with Donald Trump joining the group as the 45th president and now the 47th, too. But only one other American president did it the way Trump will — with a gap of four years between terms.

That was Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president after the 1884 election, and as the 24th president after the campaign of 1892.

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