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JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS [1797-1801]
Charles Adams, born May 29,
1770, was the first child of a President to die while his father
was in office; November 30, 1800. Mrs. Adams holds the distinction
of the first wife of a President and mother of another, John
Quincy Adams, sixth president, born July 11, 1767.
THOMAS AND MARTHA JEFFERSON [1801-1809]
Mary Jefferson born August
1, 1778, was the only daughter of a president to die in the White
House, April 17,1804. James Madison Randolph, son of Thomas and
Martha Jefferson Randolph, was the first child born in the White
House January 17, 1806; thus the only grandson of a President
born there.
ANNA AND WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
[1841-1841]
Mrs. Harrison was the only
wife of a President and grandmother of another, Benjamin Harrison,
twenty-third president, born August 20, 1833.
FRANKLIN AND JANE PIERCE [1853-1857]
President-elect and Mrs. Pierce
were involved in a train derailment while traveling through New
England. They were uninjured, but their son Benjamin, 11, was
killed on January 6, 1853.
ABRAHAM AND MARY TODD LINCOLN [1861-1865]
William [Willie] Lincoln was
the first child of a presidential couple to die in the White
House, February 20, 1862. Willie was embalmed and viewed in the
Green Room. Mrs. Lincoln never re-entered the room for the duration
of her stay at the White House.
GROVER AND FRANCES CLEVELAND [1885-1889]
[1893-1897]
The Nestle Company named the
Baby Ruth candy bar in honor of the Cleveland's first child Ruth,
born between the president's two terms in 1891. Their daughter
Esther was the only child of a presidential couple born in the
White House, September 9, 1893 during the second term of the
President.
THEODORE AND EDITH ROOSEVELT [1901-1909]
Quentin Roosevelt born November
19, 1897 was killed when his plane was shot down during Word
War I, July 14, 1918.
CALVIN AND GRACE COOLIDGE [1923-1929]
Calvin Coolidge Jr. born April
13, 1908 died at the White House July 7, 1924 from complications
arising from a blister on his foot after playing barefoot tennis.
JOHN AND JACKIE KENNEDY [1961-1963]
Patrick Kennedy born August
7, 1963 died two days after birth on August 9, 1963.
NO KIDS
George and Martha Washington,
James and Dolley Madison, Andrew and Rachel Jackson, James and
Sarah Polk, Woodrow and Edith Wilson, Warren and Florence Harding.
THE MOST KIDS
John Tyler fathered the most children, 15, eight to his first
wife Letitia and seven to his second wife Julia. William Henry
and Anna Harrison had 10 children
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