As his attribute to being an honest man as an elected Sheriff, he found out that the political leaders were cheating the prisoners out of their food and put and end to it. He was the first after the Civil War ended to be elected on the Democratic Party, and was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later. This ended 24 years of steady Republican control of the office of president. He was also an influence in passing the Interstate Commerce Act, which was the first law to attempt Federal regulation of the railroads. He also vetoed more than 300 passed by congress which he thought were unfair and in doing so was not popular.

He was responsible for bringing back honesty and impartiality to government. In his second term when railroad strikers in Chicago violated an injunction, he sent troop troops to enforce it. "If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a post card in Chicago," he was quoted as saying, "that card will be delivered." After his first two years in office as a bachelor president, Cleveland announced his marriage to his twenty-two-year-old ward, Francis Folsom. On another note his daughter Ruth even had a candy bar named after her, "Baby Ruth." His last words were, "I have tried so hard to do right." he was buried in Princeton, and the people there remembered him as, "Grover the Good."