Rose Cleveland
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Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (June 13, 1846 – November 22, 1918) was the First Lady during the first of her brother, U.S. President Grover Cleveland's two administrations. She was the 27th First Lady.
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Rose Cleveland came to take up the job when her elder brother won the presidency and lived in the White House for two years.
When President Cleveland married Frances Folsom, Rose resigned and began a career in education. She 'became the principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer, and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life.[1]'
At age 44, she started a lesbian relationship with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence[1]. However things cooled off when Evangeline married an Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, Henry Benjamin Whipple [1]. By 1910, he died and the two women rekindled their relationship and eventually moved to Bagni di Lucca, Italy [to live there together with a third woman, the Anglo-Danish artist and illustrator Nelly Erichsen][1]. Rose and Nelly died in the same week in the 1918 Spanish influenza outbreak which sweapt Europe after WW1 when the 3 women were running a refuge school. The 2 were buried in the England cemetery there, and Evangeline was buried with them both 12 years later[1].
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| Preceded by Mary McElroy |
First Lady of the United States 1885-1886 |
Succeeded by Frances Folsom Cleveland |
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