Famous Visitors

Archbishop Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi

1923

Papal delegate.

Georges Clemenceau

1865 and 1922

Former Prime Minister of France George Clemenceau visited Mount Vernon while on a lecture tour.

Jaroslav Kocián

1922

Czech violinist, classical composer and teacher.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

1921

French soldier, military theorist, and the Allied Généralissime during World War I.

Prince Kini

1921

Visited Mount Vernon with Vice Admiral Saito of the Japanese navy.

Prince Katcho

1921

Visited Mount Vernon with Vice Admiral Saito of the Japanese navy.

Albert, The Prince of Monaco

1921

Field Marshall Lord Allenby

1921

Captured Jerusalem from the Turks in World War I.

Vicente Blasco Ibañez

1920

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) was a Spanish realist novelist, journalist, and poet. He visited Mount Vernon in 1920.

Stanley Baldwin

1920

Three times Prime Minister, he is the only premier to have served under three monarchs in Great Britain.