[xuberalles]

Great read.

[ConservativeDude]

a later new yorker who also had only two years as Governor but did ok in the vice-presidency was....Theodore Roosevelt.

[DJ MacWoW]

Ping!

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Thanks for posting this. Cleveland was one of my heroes (and one of Truman’s, too). I read that he once had to hang a man. He could have pawned it off on a subordinate, and was thoroughly disgusted by the procedure. He undertook the grisly task himself because he was the sheriff and the buck stopped with him.

I think Palin is made of the same stuff.

[csvset]

I'm Grover Cleveland and I approved this post.

[RedMonqey]

Arthur never held an office higher than head of the customs office for the Port of New York before becoming vice president on a ticket with James Garfield

Not to knock this article but back in the days the customs office was a very important and powerful political post. It's not like Arthur was some mindless clerk in a tiny office, tucked away in some forgotten office building.

New York was the primary port that taxed incoming goods and the customs office collected the import tax and the federal government relied heavily upon this revenue. This was pre national Income Tax.