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Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. In 1885, Cleveland ran for president and won with the support of Democrats and reform Republicans. A bachelor, he was initially ill at ease with the social aspects of the job, and in June 1886, he married 21-year-old Frances Folsom; making him the first United States President to be married in the White House. He did not believe in the spoils system and brought integrity to the office of the President. Cleveland was defeated in the election of 1888 by Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison but had received more popular votes than Harrison, losing on the electoral vote count. Running again in 1892, Cleveland won the election but faced an immediate crisis of an acute economic depression in the country. Dealing through the Treasury Department rather than address individual business failures, he obtained a repeal of the inflationary Sherman Silver Purchase Act and maintained the Treasury's gold reserve. When railroad workers struck in Chicago, violating a federal injunction against strikes, he sent the Army to Chicago to enforce the law. Cleveland also forced Great Britain to accept arbitration in a boundary dispute with Venezuela. His economic policies were becoming generally unpopular, and in 1896, his party deserted him, nominating instead William Jennings Bryan for President. After leaving the White House, he retired to Princeton, New Jersey, where he died in 1908 at age 71.