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11 years, 120 days before 19th president Rutherford B. Hayes (died January 17, 1893) 29th president Warren Harding (died August 2, 1923) 185 days before 28th president Woodrow Wilson (died February 3, 1924) 6 years, 218 days before 27th president William Howard Taft (died March 8, 1930) 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963)
Johnson's would-be-assassin, George Atzerodt did not carry out his part of the plan, and Johnson succeeded Lincoln as president while Lewis Powell only managed to wound Seward. Lincoln was shot once in the back of his head while watching the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. , on the ...
Esther Cleveland was born on September 9, 1893, in the White House, to the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, and First Lady Frances Folsom. She remains the only child of a president to have been born there, and was nicknamed "the White House baby" as a result.
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]
Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden, née Jacobs, born June 3, 1951; She is the second wife of Joe Biden; his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden died in 1972 prior to his becoming President of the United States. Books. Journal articles. Primary sources. Biographies of with significant information about Jill Biden
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
— Grover Cleveland, president of the United States (24 June 1908), to his wife Frances "I am about the extent of a tenth of a gnat's eyebrow better." [12]: 18 [17] — Joel Chandler Harris, American author and folklorist (3 July 1908), on being asked how he felt "Never again allow a woman to hold the supreme power in the State...
[5] [6] Two of his children were born at the house: Marion in 1895 [7] and Francis Grover in 1903. [6] Following his presidency, the Cleveland family continued to summer at Gray Gables until 1904, when his daughter Ruth died of diphtheria at the age of 12. After her death, the family stopped summering there and rented out the house.