Trump’s historic return to office parallels the only other president do the same

On Nov. 5, President-elect Donald Trump became only the second president in U.S. history to win two nonconsecutive terms in office.

Thus emerged one of the election’s biggest casualties: President Grover Cleveland, who no longer holds the sole title as the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office. However, the similarities don’t stop there — several parallels can be drawn between the careers of Cleveland and Trump, though just as many differences.

Here is the story of Cleveland and how it relates to Trump.

Former President Grover Cleveland and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP) Beginnings and 1884 campaign

Cleveland was born in 1837 in New Jersey, making him of military age during the Civil War. As with Trump, he was later dogged by controversy

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