Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States may finally receive a presidential museum. Free New York, a Buffalo, NY based nonprofit and nonpartisan research group has begun raising funds to transform an abandoned library into the Grover Cleveland Presidential Library & Museum.
Though Cleveland, the first Democrat elected President after the Civil War, was born in New Jersey, he was raised in Syracuse, New York and spent much of his political career representing the state. He practiced law in Buffalo, was elected sheriff of Erie County in 1870, was elected mayor of Byffalo in 1881, and finally Governor of New York in 1882.
James Ostrowski, president of Free New York was quoted in The Buffalo News as saying, “we’re trying to think of a way to promote our organization and our ideas and also Buffalo. We started to think that a Grover Cleveland Library would be a very good way to do that." To help their efforts, Free New York had elicited the assistance of George Cleveland, the President's grandson.
If the Cleveland Presidential Library comes to fruition, it will be the nation's 18th presidential library.
For more information, visit the following link: http://www.buffalonews.com/102/story/33142.html
Saturday, March 17, 2007
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