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Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt)

1906 and several other times

First Lady of the United States (1901-1909). Came to Mount Vernon several times during her husband's presidency.

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President Theodore Roosevelt

1906, 1907, and 1908

26th President of the United States. Visited Mount Vernon in 1906 with his family. Returned the following year on horseback.

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Sergei Witte

Count Witte

1905

Count Sergei Witte (1849–1915) was a Russian statesman and reformer who served as Finance Minister and later as the first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire under Tsar Nicholas II.

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Baron Rosen

Baron Rosen

1905

Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen (1847–1921) was a Russian diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States. He came to Mount Vernon at the end of the Portsmouth Peace Conference.

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Prince Louis of Battenberg

1905

Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854–1921) was a British naval officer of German origin. He visited Mount Vernon in 1905.

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Fushimi no miya Hiroyasu

Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu

1904

Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (1875–1946) was a member of the Japanese imperial family and a distinguished admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Geoffrey Fisher

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury

1904

Geoffrey Fisher (1887–1972) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961, the first to visit a reigning Pope since the Reformation. He planted a "scion of the famous Washington Elm at Cambridge" near the Tomb.

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Alfred von Tirpitz

Admiral von Tirpitz

Thursday, February 27, 1902

Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) was a German naval officer and statesman. He came to Mount Vernon in 1902 with Prince Henry of Prussia.

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Thomas Nelson Page

1902

Thomas Nelson Page was a lawyer and American writer; he later served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.

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Paul Wilstach

1902

Paul Wilstach (1870–1952) was an American author, playwright, and literary critic known for his contributions to early 20th-century historical and theatrical literature.

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