The inauguration of Grover Cleveland as the 24th President of the United States took place on March 4, 1893. The inauguration marked the commencement of the second four-year term of Grover Cleveland as President and the only term of Adlai E. Stevenson I as Vice President. Cleveland had previously been the 22nd president, and is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller administered the Oath of office. It snowed during the inauguration.
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“I have a Congress on my hands.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“I am no Poet here; my pen ‘s the spout,
Where the rain water of my eyes run out,
In pity of that name, whose fate wee see
Thus copied out in griefs Hydrography:
The Muses are not Mer-maids, though upon
His death the Ocean might turn Helicon”
—John Cleveland (1613–1658)