What Trump and Grover Cleveland Have in Common

Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president who took office in a post-Civil War era at another time when the country was facing division.

(Left) Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Zebulon, Ga., on Oct. 23, 2024; (Right) President Grover Cleveland, (1837-1908), 24th president of the United States. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Courtesy of the National Archives/Newsmakers/Getty Images/TNS

President-elect Donald Trump will become the second president in the United States to serve two nonconsecutive terms when he takes office as the 47th president in January of 2025.

The first president to win nonconsecutive terms in office was President Grover Cleveland more than 120 years ago.