Esther Cleveland

Esther Cleveland (September 9, 1893 – June 25, 1980) was the daughter of the President of the United States Grover Cleveland.

Esther Cleveland is the first — and as of 2012 the only — presidential child born in the White House. She contracted measles when it spread through the White House, leading to a quarantine.^[1] Five years later, she contracted diphtheria.^[2]

She made her debut in 1912^[3] and was rumored to be engaged to Randolph D. West shortly after (which was denied by her relatives).^[4] In 1918 she married Captain William Sidney Bence Bosanquet of the Coldstream Guards of the British Army.^[5] He was the son of Sir Frederick Albert Bosanquet, the Common Serjeant of London. Her husband (born 1893) died on 5 March 1966.^[5] Her daughter was the British philosopher Philippa Foot.

Cleveland died in New Hampshire at age 86.

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