Donald Trump is only the second president to be elected to serve non-consecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland, and he was also from New York. He was born in New Jersey but served as sheriff of Erie County, mayor of Buffalo, and governor of New York before ascending to the highest office of the land.

While governor, he worked closely with then Assembly Member Theodore Roosevelt to enact reforms. He believed in fighting political corruption, which gained him supporters across the aisle. He was first elected president in 1884, but subsequently lost in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison. In 1892 he mounted a comeback, and defeated Harrison. As president, he embraced classic liberalism, and spoke against imperialism, fighting the forces seeking to annex Hawaii from its monarch. He stepped in during the Pullman strike to keep the nation’s railroads moving, angering unions, but also signed the law that made Labor Day a national holiday in the United States in 1894.

Locally, we have three public amenities named after Grover Cleveland: a high school and its athletic field, and a playground. The high school opened in 1931 to much fanfare. The naming of the playground was not without controversy, however. As per NYC Parks, when it opened in 1928, it was called Anawanda Park, a name taken from a small political organization of Tammany Hall-style politics that proponents called the “Anawanda Democratic Club.” In December 1939, the park’s name was changed to Grover Cleveland Playground amidst much controversy. The anti-reformists of the Anawanda Democratic Club protested the renaming of “their” park after a reformist president and their nearby rivals, the Grover Cleveland Democratic Club.