Happy Birthday March 18

Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, was born on March 18, 1837.

His father Richard Falley Cleveland was a Presbyterian minister and his mother the daughter of a bookseller. Cleveland was the winner of the popular vote for president three times—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of the two Democrats (alongside Woodrow Wilson) elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933.

Grover Cleveland

Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (1937-40), was born in Birmingham on March 18, 1869.  He was the son of Joseph Chamberlain, a Member of Parliament from 1876 to 1914, and Colonial Secretary from 1895 to 1903. At 21 Chamberlain's father sent him to manage a sisal plantation in the Bahamas to try to recoup diminished family fortunes. He didn’t become an MP until the age of 49. As Prime Minister, Chamberlain is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement towards Germany, and after that failed leading the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the World War II.

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