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Frances Cleveland

1864 - 1947

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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, the only person to serve in this role during two non-consecutive terms. Folsom first met Grover Cleveland while she was an infant, as her father, Oscar Folsom, was a close friend to Cleveland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Cleveland has received more than 1,949,922 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Frances Cleveland is the 12,303rd most popular politician (down from 10,192nd in 2019), the 4,742nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,796th in 2019) and the 306th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frances Cleveland ranks 12,303 out of 19,576Before her are Mikhail Petrashevsky, Victorino de la Plaza, Oliver Tambo, Louis of Burgundy, Manuela Carmena, and Aeropus II of Macedon. After her are Susanna M. Salter, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Fujiwara no Mototsune, and Khosrow IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Frances Cleveland ranks 109Before her are Leonard Hobhouse, Vladimir Steklov, Juan Benlloch i Vivó, Louis Lumière, Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, and Guy Ropartz. After her are Israel Zangwill, Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, James Allen, and Elena Văcărescu. Among people deceased in 1947, Frances Cleveland ranks 130Before her are Rosalia Zemlyachka, Giuseppe Volpi, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Felix Timmermans, Emil Racoviță, and Siegfried Kasche. After her are Elisabeth von Gutmann, Leevi Madetoja, Martin Mutschmann, Somnath Sharma, Léon-Paul Fargue, and Fyodor Dan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances Cleveland ranks 4,742 out of 20,380Before her are Kenneth Nichols (1907), John Bennett Perry (1941), Ward Bond (1903), Carrie Snodgress (1945), Gary Gygax (1938), and Joan Wallach Scott (1941). After her are Susanna M. Salter (1860), RuPaul (1960), Harry Hammond Hess (1906), Daron Malakian (1975), Jerry Schatzberg (1927), and Jerry Zucker (1950).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Frances Cleveland ranks 306Before her are Beau Biden (1969), Rick Perry (1950), Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Michael Kors (1959), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), and William B. Travis (1809). After her are Susanna M. Salter (1860), Kay Ivey (1944), William Perry (1927), Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), Sargent Shriver (1915), and John Hay (1838).