Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston (July 21, 1864 - October 29, 1947) was the wife of President Grover Cleveland and the 23rd and 25th First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. Frances Folsom, age 21, married
Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston (July 21, 1864 - October 29, 1947) was the wife of President Grover Cleveland and the 23rd and 25th First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. Frances Folsom, age 21, married President Grover Cleveland, age 49, on June 2, 1886, at the White House, the only President to have been married in the Executive Mansion. The new First Lady was the subject of intense media interest. She took over the duties of being White House hostess, and her charm won her popularity. She held two receptions a week - one on Saturday afternoons, when women with jobs were free to come. Upon leaving the White House at the end of her husband's first term, Cleveland is reported to have told the staff to take care of the building since the Clevelands would be returning in four years. She proved correct, becoming the only First Lady to preside at two nonconsecutive administrations. The Clevelands had three daughters and two sons. After her husband's death in 1908, Frances remained in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1913, at the age of 49, she married Thomas J. Preston, Jr., a professor of archeology. She was the first presidential widow to remarry. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, she led the Needlework Guild of America in its clothing drive for the poor. She died in 1947 at the age of 83.
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