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Cooley Hurd

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2. Grover Cleveland's grandson is still alive
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:06 PM
Feb 2013

Granted, Tyler was significanly older than GC, but it's still a cool connection to the past:

http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/President-Grover-Clevelands-grandson-visits-Hawaii/uPsa6GNgBk-PxpXNvvlDwg.cspx

George Cleveland, the grandson of President Grover Cleveland is in Hawaii with a purpose.

When his grandfather was president in his second term he asked Congress to restore the Hawaiian kingdom to the Monarchy. He is here as part of the Grover Cleveland - Queen Liliuokalani Education Project which promotes peace and forgiveness.

"And to try and create a better understanding of what those two individuals had going on in their minds during 1893 during those dark days," said George Cleveland, President Cleveland's grandson.

He says President Cleveland was friends with Queen Liliuokalani.


And, he looks remarkably like his grandfather:

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