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The desk currently in use by Donald Trump is the Resolute desk. Of the six desks that have occupied the Oval Office, the Resolute has spent the longest time in the room, having been used by eight presidents. The Resolute has been used by John F. Kennedy and by all U.S. presidents since 1977 with the exception of George H. W. Bush.
The Resolute desk in the Treaty Room in 1992 during the term of George H. W. Bush President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden discuss the desk with Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in 2015. Below is a table with the location of the desk from 1880, when it arrived in America, to the present day.
The Hoover desk, also known colloquially as FDR's Oval Office desk, is a large block front desk, used by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office. Created in 1930 as a part of a 17-piece office suite by furniture makers from Grand Rapids, Michigan , the Art Deco desk was given to the White House by the Grand Rapids ...
Used the Resolute desk in his office picture of him using it ; Benjamin Harrison: 23 Benjamin Harrison's desk 1 by 1 inch (2.5 by 2.5 cm) this image from the white house historic association says it is the resolute desk, but it clearly is not. this has happened a few times with image descriptions there. this might be the same desk:
In late 1885, local Grand Rapids businessmen Gaius Perkins, William T. Hess and Seymour W. Peregrine founded the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company to manufacture school and office furniture. They began manufacture in a small factory in 1886. Business boomed, and in 1887 they began constructing a new factory.
In 1918, Metal Office Furniture ended its agreement with Macey and entered into a partnership with Terrell. By the 1920s, both companies were doing well, and in 1925 Metal Office Furniture began building a new plant for the production of desks and tables connected to the Terrell plant. The new building became Metal Office Furniture Plant No. 2.
Franklin Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana.The district encompasses 73 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential section of Michigan City.
The Theodore Roosevelt desk was brought back to the newly rebuilt Oval Office in 1945 by Truman, who placed a sign reading "The Buck Stops Here" on it. [1] [26] The desk was also used by Dwight Eisenhower and briefly by John F. Kennedy before it was switched out in 1961 for the Resolute desk.