Famous Visitors

Eugenio, Cardinal Pacelli

Thursday, October 22, 1936

Papal Secretary of State; later became Pope Pius XII.

Her Majesty, Victoria Eugenia with her Daughter, Infanta Beatrice

1936

Former Queen of Spain.

Prince & Princess Takamatsu

1934

Prince Iyesato Tokugawa

1934

Accompanied by his son. From Japan.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

May 15, 1933 and many other occasions

Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

1933 and many other occasions

First Lady of the United States (1933-1945).

Senator Gosuke Imai

1933 and 1940

Member of the House of Peers in Japan & President of the Japan Association for New York-San Francisco International Expositions.

J. Edgar Hoover

Monday, February 22, 1932

First director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Cardinal Verdier

1932

The Queen of Siam

Thursday, April 30, 1931

Accompanied by First Lady Mrs. Herbert Hoover.

Prince and Princess Svasti of Siam

Wednesday, April 29, 1931

Marshall Petain

1931

Came to Mount Vernon with a group of descendants of Lafayette, Rochambeau, De Grasse, and other Frenchmen who fought with Washington in the American Revolution.

President Herbert Hoover

February 22, 1930 and February 22, 1932

31st President of the United States. He and Mrs. Hoover visited on George Washington's birthday in 1930, when they spent a few minutes inside Washington's tomb "paying silent tribute."

Red Tomahawk

June 1929

Sioux chief.

Colonel Granados

1929

Good-will aviator from Guatemala.