Collection Presidential Retreats
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
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- Library of Congress
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Created 1910-1960.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was ill at the time of the inauguration, and so President William Henry Harrison's daughter-in-law, Jane Irwin Harrison, served as hostess for a month.
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