1884 United States presidential election
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The <entity_0> was the 25th quadrennial <entity_1>, held on Tuesday, <entity_6>. It saw the first election of a Democrat as <entity_2> since James Buchanan in 1856 and the first <entity_12> president since the American Civil War. Governor <entity_5> of New York defeated <entity_7> <entity_8> of Maine. Two third-party candidates, <entity_11> of the <entity_4> and <entity_3> of the <entity_9> and the Anti-Monopoly Party, each won less than 2% of the popular vote. Blaine was the last former or current Secretary of State to be nominated by a major political party until the nomination of Hillary Clinton 132 years later, while Cleveland became the only sitting <entity_12> president between the end of the civil war and the election of Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 <entity_1>, a span of almost 40 years. The 1884 <entity_7> National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, on June 3–6, with former Secretary of State <entity_8> from Maine, President Arthur, and Senator George F. Edmunds from Vermont as the frontrunners. Butler, while far from opposed to the nomination, hoped to be nominated by the <entity_12> or <entity_7> party, or at least in the case of the former, to make its platform more favorable to greenbacks. Butler had initially hoped to form a number of fusion slates with the "minority party" in each state, <entity_12> or <entity_7>, and for his supporters of various parties to come together under a single "People's Party". Many of the delegates at the convention were initially interested in nominating <entity_11>, the former governor of Kansas, but it was feared that such a nomination might cost him that of the <entity_4>, which he was actively seeking. The national ticket was nominated unanimously: <entity_11> for president and <entity_10> for vice president. Shortly before election day, the <entity_7> media published an affidavit from Halpin in which she stated that until she met Cleveland her "life was pure and spotless," and "there is not, and never was, a doubt as to the paternity of our child, and the attempt of <entity_5>, or his friends, to couple the name of Oscar Folsom, or any one else, with that boy, for that purpose is simply infamous and false."
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