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Rebecca was a raccoon kept as a pet by US president Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge.. Rebecca came from Mississippi. [2] She had been sent to the White House to be served for the 1926 Thanksgiving dinner.
Grace Anna Coolidge (née Goodhue; January 3, 1879 – July 8, 1957) was the first lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 as the wife of the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge. She was previously the second lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 and the first lady of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921.
Grace Coolidge’s Racoon ©Vital9s/Shutterstock.com. Celebrity: Wife of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Animal: Racoon. Names: Rebecca. Make a good pet? No, she repeatedly bit Coolidge and ...
Rebecca the raccoon is held by First Lady Grace Coolidge, 1927. 2. Calvin Coolidge's Thanksgiving Raccoon ... Coolidge was a huge animal lover, so it is no surprise that he kept the raccoon, named ...
Palo Alto ("Palo") – A black and white English Setter, a bird dog that Coolidge soon gave to Colonel Starling, [112] chief of the Secret Service detail in the White House; Bessie – collie; Rebecca – raccoon, [key 3] [114] [113] Rebecca was intended for a Thanksgiving feast; First Lady Grace had a tree-house built for her instead [112] [115]
On March 4, 1925, nearly 100 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated for a second time. He served a partial term beginning in 1923 after the death of President Warren G. Harding.
A portrait of Grace Coolidge by the American artist and illustrator Howard Chandler Christy, originally hung in the Red Room of the White House, shows the First Lady with Rob Roy. [8] The dog's pose – a gaze directed toward Grace Coolidge – was achieved by feeding it candy from Coolidge's hand throughout the portrait sittings. [5]
Image credits: raccoonsfun Technically, raccoons are considered to be pests. They intrude on people’s homes or backyards to find food. They enter homes through chimneys, gaps in roofs, and other ...