On May 28, conservationist John Muir launches the Sierra Club in San Francisco. It will eventually have over 1.4 million members, making it the largest of the environmental advocacy organizations in the U.S.
On November 8, People's (Populist) Party candidate James B. Weaver (Iowa) wins twenty-two electoral votes but former President Grover Cleveland (Democrat) defeats both Weaver and Republican President Benjamin Harrison to win the presidency. Cleveland thus serves as both the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President.
