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Esther Cleveland (September 9, 1893 – June 25, 1980) was the daughter of the
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Grover ClevelandStephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
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Esther Cleveland is the first — and as of 2011 the only — presidential child born in the
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. She contracted
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when it spread through the White House, leading to a
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. Five years later, she contracted
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She made her debut in 1912 and was rumored to be engaged to Randolph D. West shortly after (which was denied by her relatives). In 1918 she married Captain William Sidney Bence Bosanquet of the
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of the
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. Her husband (born 1893) died on 5 March 1966. Her daughter was the British philosopher
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Cleveland died in
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at age 86.