# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-cleveland
# Generated: 2026-09-02T18:58:15.051Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/frances-cleveland"
name: "Frances Cleveland"
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description: "She married the president at 21 — the youngest first lady on record — and held the role twice, with a four-year gap in between when her husband lost and then won the office back."
tagline: "First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897"
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birthDate: "1864-07-21"
deathDate: "1947-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Frances Folsom first met Grover Cleveland as an infant. Her father was Cleveland's close friend, and when he died in 1875, Cleveland became executor of the estate, clearing debts and supporting Frances and her mother. After she graduated from Wells College, she married him during his first presidential term in 1886. They left the White House in 1889 after he lost reelection, spent four years in private life starting a family, then returned in 1893 when he won again. The Clevelands had five children, four surviving to adulthood, and she turned much of her second-term attention to them. After Grover died in 1908, she threw herself into education work — Wells College board, women's education, kindergarten construction, Princeton University causes. She remarried in 1913 to Thomas J. Preston Jr. and spent World War I pushing military preparedness. She died in 1947 and was buried beside Cleveland in Princeton.