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1887-Dated FRANCIS F CLEVELAND Autographed Executive Mansion. - Washington. Card

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1887-Dated FRANCIS F CLEVELAND Autographed Executive Mansion. - Washington. Card
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Twice “First Lady” to U.S. President Grover Cleveland Signed “Executive Mansion. - Washington.” Official Card
FRANCIS F. CLEVELAND (1864-1927). First Lady married to the President of the United States Grover Cleveland, and was the First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.
1887-Dated, Autograph “Executive Mansion. - Washington.” Card Signed, “Francis Cleveland.” as First Lady, measuring 4.5” x 2.75”, Washington, Crisp Choice Near Mint. When Frances Cleveland married Grover Cleveland, she became the youngest First Lady ever, and the first to be married in the White House. Some trivial old mounting traces on the blank back. Boasting a huge 4” long vivid signature on this scarce official Executive Mansion card.
In the spring of 1885, while visiting Washington, D.C., with her mother, Frances received a marriage proposal from Grover Cleveland, the president of the United States. Upon returning from her trip to Europe, at 21 years old, Frances married the president in the White House's Blue Room on June 2, 1886. By doing so, Frances became the youngest-ever American first lady. She was also the only first lady ever to have been married at the White House.

Frances supported projects in Washington, including the Women's Christian Temperance Movement's "Hope and Help Project," and helped establish the Washington Home for Friendless Colored Girls.

Grover Cleveland's first term ended in 1889, and he would not take office for his second (noncontinuous) term until March 1893. In the interim, Frances gave birth to a daughter, Ruth (1891). She was pregnant again by the time her husband started his second term and gave birth to another daughter, Ester, in September 1893. During Cleveland's second term, the family welcomed a third daughter, Marion (1895), to the world.