Election+of+1884

Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine
 * Contents ||
 * Runners ||
 * Previous president ||
 * Former President ||
 * Concerns of the Time ||
 * Campaign ||
 * Conventions ||
 * Debate ||
 * Results ||

**Runners**

 * There were four men running in the primaries. Grover Cleveland, a democrat from New York. James G. Blaine, a republican from Maine. Benjamin F. Butler, a Greenback and an Anti-Monopoly from Massachusetts. John P. St. John, a Prohibition from Kansas. Cleveland and Blaine ended up going on. Cleveland's vice-president was Thomas A. Hendricks from Indiana. Blaine's vice-president was John H. Logan from Indiana.**

**Former President**

 * James Garfield was inaugurated in 1881 but was shot and killed later that year. Chester Alan Arthur, who was his vice-president became president.**

**Concerns of the Time**

 * There was still the matter of paying off our previous war reparations. Also there were still finite matters to deal with in regards to the civil war.**

**Campaign**

 * The campaign was extremely bitter and focused on the candidates` shortcomings. Cleveland, years earlier in Buffalo, had fathered an illegitimate child. He had taken full financial responsibility for his offspring and publicly acknowledged that he had made a mistake. Republican opponents, however, kept the matter in the public mind by chanting, "Ma, Ma, where`s my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha, ha, ha."**

**Conventions**

 * The Republican Convention took place June 3 to June 6, 1884 in Chicago at the Exposition Hall. Here they voted for Blaine to be their runner with Logan as his vice. Chester Alan was not able to get on the ballot for a second term. The** **Democrat Convention took p[lace on July 8 to July 11, 1884 in Chicago at Exposition Hall. They gave Cleveland the nomination with Hendricks as vice. Some Republicans did not like that Blaine was nominated, so they left their convention saying that they would vote for the Democrat nominee. The Republicans did not support the former president Arthur when he tried to get reelected, even though he gave a good campaign and good speeches.**
 * Democratic Candidates || Republican Candidates ||
 * Thomas F. Bayard || George F. Edmunds ||
 * Thomas A. Hendricks || Chester A. Arthur ||
 * Allen G. Thurman || John A. Logan ||
 * Samuel J. Randall || James G. Blaine ||
 * Joseph E. McDonald ||  ||
 * Grover Cleveland ||  ||

**Debate**
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**Results**


Cleveland won with a margin of 37 votes.Grover Cleveland was the first democratic president after 1856. The election of 1884 took place on November 4th, 1884.
 * **Candidate ** ||   ||  **Party **  ||   ||  **Electoral Votes **  ||   ||  **Popular Votes **  ||
 * || Grover Cleveland ||  || Democratic ||   || 219  ||   || 4,874,986  ||
 * || James G. Blaine ||  || Republican ||   || 182  ||   || 4,851,981  ||

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