Historic Figures Who Were Secretly Terrible People

Historic Figures Who Were Secretly Terrible People

Shannon Quinn - March 6, 2023

Historic Figures Who Were Secretly Terrible People
Photo of Glover Cleveland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

President Grover Cleveland Was a Predator Who Ruined Multiple People’s Lives

Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Not much is said about him in history class, because he didn’t make any monumental changes to the country. But in reality, he was a very creepy guy. He groomed his best friend’s daughter from the time she was a baby. He married her when she was 21 years old, and he was 49. Frances Cleveland was the youngest First Lady in history. A decade earlier, when he was 37, he assaulted a 38-year old woman named Mariah Halpin. She became pregnant with his child. When she tried to expose him for his crime, he used his power to get her committed to an insane asylum. Then he put his own son in an orphanage. He also ruined a journalist’s entire career for trying to write about the fact that he had cancer.

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