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Born Buffalo, New York
First Lady 1886–1889; 1893–1897
No other first lady had been a celebrity before Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland. The media coverage of her White House wedding to President Grover Cleveland excited the romantic sentiments of many Americans. Almost overnight, the twenty-one-year old bride became an icon. Her c...
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Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
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