President Millard Fillmore
March 1851
13th President of the United States. Came with a group of people to assess whether Mount Vernon would make a suitable home for soldiers.
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Edward Everett
1851
19th century American orator and politician; instrumental in helping the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association raise the money to purchase the Mount Vernon estate.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1850
American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride"
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Dolley Payne Todd Madison and Sarah Childress Polk
June 1845
First Ladies of the United States (1809-1817). Madison was invited to visit Mount Vernon in 1805, prior to becoming First Lady, but was unable to go. Later went to Mount Vernon in 1845, after her time as First Lady, in the company of President and Mrs. Polk.
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President James Knox Polk
June 1845
11th President of the United States. Came to Mount Vernon with his wife, Sarah Childress Polk, and former First Lady, Dolley Payne Madison.
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Marquis de Lafayette
1827
George Washington's old comrade from the Revolutionary War, visited Mount Vernon several times in the company of his son, George Washington Lafayette, during his triumphal tour of America.
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Horace Binney
1809
Pennsylvania lawyer and biographer of Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington, George Washington?s nephew.
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