While Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president, in 1888 he lost to the 23rd president, who served from when to when?
Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893; he was the grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, creating the only grandfather-grandson duo to hold the office. Before ascending to the presidency, Harrison established himself as a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader, and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the American Civil War, he served in the Union Army as a colonel, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers in 1865. Harrison unsuccessfully ran for governor of Indiana in 1876. The Indiana General Assembly elected Harrison to a six-year term in the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1887.
Horace Greeley presidential campaign, 1872 In the run-up to the 1872 U.S. Presidential election, major changes occurred in the United States of America. Specifically, the 15th Amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote and cracked down on the Ku Klux Klan. In addition, the economy was still in good shape and President Grant's corruption scandals for the most part haven't become known about yet. With this background, incumbent U.S. President was able to decisively defeat Horace Greeley, the candidate of both the Democrats and the Liberal Republicans (a breakaway party that split off from the Republican Party due to its members' dislike of the corruption of the Republicans and the Republicans' Reconstruction policies), in the 1872 election.