Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
Frances Folsom Cleveland Portrait
- Date of Work
- 1886
- Credit
- Library of Congress
Frances Folsom Cleveland Portrait
Frances Folsom was only twenty-one when she married Grover Cleveland and became the youngest first lady to live in the White House. Mrs. Cleveland held two weekly receptions, one of which was on Saturday so working women could attend. At the end of President Cleveland's first term Mrs. Cleveland told one of the White House workers, "We are coming back just four years from today," and they did.
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