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Frances Cleveland: The FLOTUS As Celebrity
When 49-year-old sitting president Grover Cleveland took a 21-year old bride, the country was enchanted. Frances Folsom: White House Bride New First Lady Frances Cleveland was not only young, but she was pretty. She had a nice figure, a peaches-and-cream … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Frances Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Frances Cleveland featured in advertising, Frances Cleveland in product endorsements, Frances Cleveland's alma mater, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland's children, history, President Grover Cleveland, Presidential history, US history, Wells College, White House history, women's magazines of the 1880s
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The Plot to Assassinate General Grant
General Grant was one of John Wilkes Booth’s targets on April 14, 1865. This is Julia Grant’s story, penned some 35 years after it occurred, and not known to the general public for more than a century. April 14, 1865 … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant
Tagged "The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant", Abraham Lincoln, American history, Booth accomplice O'Laughlin, Civil War history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady Mary Lincoln, Ford's Theater, General Grant, General Rawlins, General Ulysses Grant, General Ulysses S. Grant, history, John Wilkes Booth, Julia Dent Grant, Julia Grant, Lincoln's Assassination, Mary Lincoln, Michael O'Laughlin, Mrs. Ulysses S. Grfant, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, Presidential history, Secretary of State William Seward, The Hero of Appomatttox, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Vice President Andrew Johnson
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Lincoln’s Secret Spy: A Book Review
Authors Jane Singer and John Stewart are very quirky writers. Not a bad thing by the way. Quirk works. And they chose a very quirky subject for their anti-hero look at “the great con” of the Civil War. Had Lincoln … Continue reading
Posted in Recommended Reading
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Author Jane Singer, Author John Stewart, Civil War books, Civil War espionage, Civil War history, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, Lincoln's Secret Spy, President Lincoln, Secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, US history, William Alvin Lloyd
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Warren Harding and the Ohio Gang
The term “The Ohio Gang” is misleading. First of all, not all of them were from Ohio. Warren Harding: A Lackluster Politician Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was a lackluster fellow. His abilities were moderate, not stellar. His ambition for high … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Warren G. Harding
Tagged "The Duchess", "The Duchess" Harding, American history, Charles Forbes, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies history, First Lady Florence Harding, Florence Harding, Harding's Ohio Gang, Harry Daugherty, Harry M. Daugherty, history, Jess Smith, President Warren G. Harding, President Warren Harding, Presidential history, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, Senator Albert Fall, Senator Edwin Denby, The election of 1920, The Marion Star, The Ohio Gang, The Teapot Dome scandal, US history, Warren G. Harding, Warren Gamaliel Harding, Warren Harding, White House history
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William R. King: The VEEP Who Never Was
The office of Vice President was merely an afterthought to our Constitution’s founders. It was so insignificant that for nearly 39 years(!), the office remained empty. The Early VEEPS For the first twelve years of the USA being the USA, … Continue reading
Posted in Nifty History People
Tagged Aaron Burr, American history, American Vice Presidents, Andrew Jackson, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, James Buchanan, John Adams, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, The election of 1852, Thomas Jefferson, US history, US Vice Presidents, Vice President William R> King, Vice Presidential history, Vice Presidents, VP William R. King, William Henry Harrison, William rufus DeVane King, Zachary Taylor
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Emilie Todd: Mary Lincoln’s Little Sister
Mary Todd Lincoln came from a huge family. There were fourteen children. Children and Steps: Mary Todd was the fourth of six children born to Robert Smith Todd and his first wife, Elizabeth Parker. She died when Mary was only … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Benjamin Hardin Helm, Confederate General Ben Helm, Elizabeth Parker, Emilie Todd, Emilie Todd Helm, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, Katherine Helm, Lincoln's brother-in-law Ben Helm, Mary Lincoln, Mary Lincoln's sister Emilie Todd, Mary Lincoln's sisters, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln's parents, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, Presidential history, Robert Smith Todd, The Lincoln's "Little sister", US history, White House history
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VP John Nance Garner: “Cactus Jack”
The longest lived Vice President was FDR’s first VEEP, John Nance Garner. He lived to be just shy of his 99th birthday. JNG: Rural Texan John Nance Garner (1867-1965) lived between Johnsons: born during VP-turned-POTUS Andrew Johnson’s administration, and died … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Andrew Johnson, Cactus Jack, Cactus Jack Garner, FDR, Feather Schwartz Foster, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, history, John F. Kennedy, John N. Garner, John Nance Garner, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Franklin D Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn, speaker of the House, TX, US history, Uvalde, Vice Presidential history, VP John Nance Garner
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President Garfield’s Train
James A. Garfield, President for barely six months, was dying from an assassin’s bullet. Garfield: The Long Hot Summer The summer of 1881 had been one of the hottest ever remembered by Washingtonians. The temperatures soared over 90 degrees practically … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, James Garfield
Tagged American history, Charles Francklyn cottage in Long Branch, Charles G. Francklyn, Charles Julius Guiteau, Elberon NJ, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies history, First Lady Lucretia Garfield, Garfield's assassination, Garfield's train to Long Branch, history, James A. Garfield, James Garfield, James Garfield's assassination, Long Branch NJ, Lucretial Garfield, President Garfield's assassination, President James A. Garfield, Presidential history, Presidential history at Long Branch, US history, White House history
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