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Frances Clara Cleveland Preston (née Folsom, christened Frank Clara; July 21, 1864 – October 29, 1947) was the first lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 until 1897, as the wife of President Grover Cleveland. She was the first, and until 2025, the only person to serve in this role during two non-consecutive terms. [a]
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President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom Cleveland on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room at the White House. - Thure De Thulstrup/Library of Congress.
Cleveland, born in 1837, was the law partner of Folsom's father, Oscar Folsom, and a close family friend. They first met when Folsom, born in 1864, was an infant while Cleveland was already an adult. In 1875, Folsom's father died in a buggy accident, and Cleveland was appointed the executor of his estate and became her unofficial guardian.
"He wouldn't let me go inside. And he choked me (unintelligible) in the hallway," she said. "He blocked the door so I couldn't go inside, and when I did go inside, he chased me upstairs.