GROVER CLEVELAND
Few people know about his macabre “job”. While serving as sheriff of New York’s Erie County from 1871 to 1874, Cleveland personally hanged two criminals instead of delegating the gruesome task. “According to a 1912 article in the New York Times, Cleveland argued that he had ‘insisted that he had no moral right to impose upon a subordinate the obnoxious and degrading tasks that attached to his office.’”
