Trump is hoping to win non-consecutive terms. Only one president has done it
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Trump is hoping to win non-consecutive terms. Only one president has done it

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Trump is hoping to win non-consecutive terms. Only one president has done it toggle caption Ezekiel Jones/AP If Trump wins reelection, he would be the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms. He ran for reelection in 1888 but lost to Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison — a Union Army colonel during the Civil War, and the grandson of former President William Henry Harrison. toggle caption National Archives/Getty Images/Hulton Archive Cleveland's reelection campaign was poorly run on many levels, presidential historian Troy Senik told History.com. Barbara Perry, co-chair of the University of Virginia Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program, told History.com that Cleveland didn't intend to run again after his first term, but was increasingly dissatisfied with his party's populist drift and concerned that another nominee would "draw the party towards the kind of cronyism that he had fought so hard against."

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