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The wedding of President Grover Cleveland, who was 49 years old, and his bride Frances Folsom, who was 21 years old, took place on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room of the White House. Cleveland was the sitting President of the United States and remains the only U.S. president to be married in a room of the White House.
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, only person to serve in this role during two non-consecutive terms.
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat to win election to the presidency after the Civil War and the first of two U.S. presidents to serve nonconsecutive terms.
But with Donald Trump's return, Grover Cleveland is a big deal again. George Cleveland never knew his grandfather, who died in 1908. ... he was 49 when he and Frances married in the White House ...
Grover Cleveland stands alone in American history as the only President to serve non-consecutive terms. On the anniversary of his birth, here’s a look at one of most fascinating White House ...
The pair were married on January 6, 1759, and were married for 40 years before the first US president died in December 1799. ... Grover and Frances Cleveland: 4 inches.
May 21, 1874: Nellie Grant (daughter of President Ulysses S. Grant) married Algernon Sartoris in the East Room. June 19, 1878: Emily Platt (niece of President Rutherford B. Hayes) married Russell Hastings in the Blue Room. June 2, 1886: President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in the Blue Room. The only wedding of a president to take ...
Frances Clara Cleveland Preston, née Folsom; date – date; She was the wife of Grover Cleveland. She was the youngest person (age 21) to fill the position of First Lady and is one of two who remarried after the deaths of their Presidential husbands and one of two First Ladies to marry a sitting President.