Collection The White House Social Secretary
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
Jean Pierre Sioussat, c. 1815
- Date of Work
- c. 1815
- Credit
- White House Historical Association
Jean Pierre Sioussat, c. 1815
Born in Paris in 1781, the charming Jean Pierre Sioussat was known as “French John.” Jefferson had appointed him doorkeeper, “an office of greater dignity than that of a mere hall porter,” as White House chronicler Esther Singleton noted in 1907. Sioussat advised Dolley Madison on the evacuation of the White House during the War of 1812.
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